The Ice Cloud Imager: retrieval of frozen water column properties

May, Eleanor; Rydberg, Bengt; Kaur, Inderpreet; Mattioli, Vinia; Hallborn, Hanna; Eriksson, Patrick

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5957-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5957-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5957-2024

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Research article

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11 Oct 2024

Research article |

| 11 Oct 2024

The Ice Cloud Imager: retrieval of frozen water column properties

Eleanor May, Bengt Rydberg, Inderpreet Kaur, Vinia Mattioli, Hanna Hallborn, and Patrick Eriksson

Data sets

FAAM B895 COSMICS and CIRCCREX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a6fca876b6be4dda8c2ff2349acc629c

FAAM B893 COS MICS flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 air craft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bf75026bdd844ee89547b204ff62cd2b

FAAM B895 CIRCCREX and ISMAR flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6ba397d6c8854da19bcced8ea588c1f9

FAAM B897 COSMICS and CIRCCREX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/27451f8260854b7baa6c18960d34b064

FAAM B898 COSMICS flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b5758a268bf74497b658628e8b4d7199

FAAM B939 WINTEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dcc9dc73d8bc44caa51f5e8641f2c212

FAAM B940 WINTEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3b5348ea45cb455aac0c97139233ab65

FAAM B941 WINTEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/35c0f63e11614cd8853f2b75f780193b

FAAM B945 CIRCCREX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/ uuid/3d031fd113e04cab800c8fd58d1e9e61

FAAM B949 CIRCCREX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/ uuid/7a1c976f7df14c8784d9166b3e75522c

FAAM B951 WINTEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/ uuid/36225d447ab04cb6aad1a7e0ba9064bf

FAAM B952 WINTEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/ uuid/72c383b0f97d46c28454db3adcbdd3ec

FAAM B984 ISMAR and T-NAWDEX flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/46ca2a2cc8ce497fbf06beaf31f67098

FAAM C153 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6a2bc7a1edc34650bd41e0f958cbd50a

FAAM C156 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1c470a6cd7544aa0b181491088688384

FAAM C157 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2dd33547716548d9b0017c292d6156cd

FAAM C158 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/67fdcb450e87488ab9ddd6e263966827

FAAM C159 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/68cfc7f294554646803c80b2a389e105

FAAM C160 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6abfeb3f8bd244899259c5c4cad3dc49

FAAM C161 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/133e15c47c024aa4b30e3f6f54af8b77

FAAM C164 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c3461c55e13942df9e3e217daeb4a909

FAAM C168 PIKNMIX-F flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/aee65288656346d286eb1247638c1ebf

GPM GMI Brightness Temperatures L1B 1.5 hours 13 km V07 GPM Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/GMI/GPM/1B/07

Model code and software

The Ice Cloud Imager: retrieval of frozen water column properties - Code Eleanor May https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10839089

Short summary

The upcoming Ice Cloud Imager (ICI) mission is set to improve measurements of atmospheric ice through passive microwave and sub-millimetre wave observations. In this study, we perform detailed simulations of ICI observations. Machine learning is used to characterise the atmospheric ice present for a given simulated observation. This study acts as a final pre-launch assessment of ICI's capability to measure atmospheric ice, providing valuable information to climate and weather applications.