Sounding Heavy Precipitating Vertical Cloud Structures using Polarimetric Radio Occultations: Validation with Cloudsat, TRMM and GPM products

Padulles, Ramon

Sounding Heavy Precipitating Vertical Cloud Structures using Polarimetric Radio Occultations: Validation with Cloudsat, TRMM and GPM products

Ramon Padulles¹, Francis J Turk², Chi O Ao², Manuel de la Torre-Juárez¹, Kuo-Nung Wang³ and Estel Cardellach⁴, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Institute for Space Sciences (ICE - CSIC/IEEC), Barcelona, Spain