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View SchemaSurrogate cloud fields with measured cloud properties
| Authors | Victor Venema, Susanne Crewell, Clemens Simmer |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0306067 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306067 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, September 14th-20th, 2003 |
Abstract
This paper describes two new methods to generate 2D and 3D cloud fields based on 1D and 2D ground based profiler meas-urements. These cloud fields share desired statistical properties with real cloud fields. As they, however, are similar but not the same as real clouds, we call them surrogate clouds. One important advantage of the new methods is that the amplitude distribution of cloud liquid water is also exactly determined by the measurement: The surrogate clouds made with the classi-cal methods such as the Fourier method and the Bounded Cascade method are Gaussian and 'log-normal-like', respectively. Our first new method iteratively creates a time series with a measured amplitude distribution and power spectrum. Our sec-ond method uses an evolutionary search algorithm to generate cloud fields with practically arbitrary constraints. These clouds will be used to study the relation between radiation and cloud structure.
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"abstract": "This paper describes two new methods to generate 2D and 3D cloud fields based\non 1D and 2D ground based profiler meas-urements. These cloud fields share\ndesired statistical properties with real cloud fields. As they, however, are\nsimilar but not the same as real clouds, we call them surrogate clouds. One\nimportant advantage of the new methods is that the amplitude distribution of\ncloud liquid water is also exactly determined by the measurement: The surrogate\nclouds made with the classi-cal methods such as the Fourier method and the\nBounded Cascade method are Gaussian and \u0027log-normal-like\u0027, respectively. Our\nfirst new method iteratively creates a time series with a measured amplitude\ndistribution and power spectrum. Our sec-ond method uses an evolutionary search\nalgorithm to generate cloud fields with practically arbitrary constraints.\nThese clouds will be used to study the relation between radiation and cloud\nstructure.",
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