Use of Remote Sensing for High Impact Weather

Dear Colleagues,

Use of remote sensing for atmospheric research and extreme weather research is important for weather forecast and climate change, and develop new technologies. Multi-decadal datasets of high spatial and temporal resolution and with reasonable accuracy based on remote sensing platforms e.g. satellites, radars, as well as lidars are needed for improving  the research on weather forecast, climate change, and adaptation for extreme weather conditions.

Remote sensing platforms provide  extensive  datasets over data-sparse regions of the Earth that are related to  clouds and its microphysics, lightning, precipitation types (e.g. rain, drizzle, snow), precipitation intensity, ozone, aerosol optical properties, soil moisture, and groundwater. Long-term datasets are useful to investigate the atmospheric processes for extreme weather events and climate change conditions. Advanced cloud and precipitation radars on satellites provide measurements of cloud microphysics and precipitation characteristics that use radar reflectivity factor and other meteorological parameters such as temperature discriminate particle phase.  Clouds Imageries based on advanced baseline instrument (ABI) platforms are used for nowcasting and track of weather extremes, as well as cloud water and ice crystal properties e.g. liquid water path (LWP) and ice water path (IWP), effective size (Reff), as well as optical thickness. Lidars placed on satellites or on the ground provide aerosol, ice cloud, as well as wind components to study dynamics of the environment, and can be used for data assimilation for NWP model simulations.These suggest that remote sensing platforms are essential for studying extreme weather events and important weather events that can include tracks of weather systems, polar vortex,  climate change, ocean warming, the role of aerosols in surface heat budget, fog, rain, snowstorms as well as cloud physical structure and distribution.

This special-Issue invites research articles related to weather and extreme events that uses satellites, radars, lidars, as well related ground and spaced based platforms;  These can be related to GPM, TRMM, CloudSat, TMI, MODIS, GOES, GRACE, SMOS, CALIPSO, VIIRM, HIMAWARI, ICESat-2 and AVHRR, as well as newly developed satellite based systems for wind and aerosol, and clouds. Manuscripts involving above  topics and other remote sensing platforms that can explain a particular phenomenon, event or process, can be suitable for this special issue. If you need any additional information, please contact editors or to journal.

Dr. Vinay Kumar
Prof. Dr. Ismail Gultepe
Guest Editors

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