Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2001/00203
Measurement of scattering and absorption properties of ice crystals appropriate to tropical cirrus cloud.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor PH Kaye, University of Hertfordshire, Science and Technology RI
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor ZJ Ulanowski, University of Hertfordshire, School of Physics, Astronomy and Maths
- Grant held at:
- University of Hertfordshire, Science and Technology RI
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Upper Atmos Process & Geospace
- Tropospheric Processes
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The proposed project aims to enhance recently developed methods of measuring the scattering properties of ice crystals, with particular application to clouds associated with deep convection, such as tropical cirrus anvils or detached anvils. Non-contact manipulation and trapping methods will be used in conjunction with ice analogue materials to measure selected scattering matrix elements and related properties of crystals, such as the asymmetry parameter and depolarisation coefficient, with particular emphasis on aggregates. The project will help to answer a fundamental question of what is a representative asymmetry parameter for the tropics, contribute to increasing the accuracy of cloud retrievals in terms of cloud optical thickness and crystal effective size and allow a more representative parameterisation of the phase function/asymmetry parameter for application to radiative transfer studies using Cloud Resolving Models.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2001/00203
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Clouds, Water Vapour & Climate
This grant award has a total value of £151,467
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £94,473 | £1,518 | £12,019 | £43,458 |
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