Abstract
In this work, the problem of radiation scattering by ice crystals typical for cirrus clouds is solved for a 94-GHz radar (wavelength 3189 µm) and a lidar (wavelength 0.355 µm); the ice refractive indices are 1.7864 + 0.0032i and 1.3249 + 0i, respectively. The scattering matrices are calculated within the physical optics approximation and the discrete dipole approximation for the case of randomly oriented particles with sizes from 4 to 1000 µm. The ratio of the radar and lidar backscattering signals in the backward direction (the so-called radar–lidar ratio) is calculated for a wide range of the particle size for typical shapes of cirrus cloud ice crystals. It is shown that this ratio can be used for estimating the size of ice crystals in cirrus clouds.
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INTRODUCTION
The global climatic changes observed in recent time require a closer and more detailed study of climate-forming factors [1, 2]. One of main sources of uncertainty in present-day numerical models of climate change forecasting is cirrus clouds, which are an important atmospheric component having a significant effect on the radiation budget of the Earth [3–8]. Cirrus clouds are usually located at altitudes from 7 to 12 km and consist of mostly hexagonal crystalline ice particles [9, 10].
Microphysical properties (size, shape, orientation, etc.) of atmospheric ice crystals are poorly studied due to the high degree of their variability in time and space, as well as by virtue of the fact that field measurements of such properties are ineffective due to the break of the particle structure at the instant of observations [11, 12]. Various remote methods remain effective ways of studying the atmosphere. Among them, methods of lidar and radar sensing stand out. They provide active cloud sensing [13–19] with the use of ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne devices [13, 19–23]. The advantage of these methods is that they make no changes in the spatial orientation of crystals. However, there appear difficulties in interpreting signals received in these methods [24–26].
Earlier [27, 28], we found lidar-measured characteristics (the lidar, depolarization, and spectral ratios) that are sensitive to the shape and orientation of atmospheric ice crystals. It was proposed to use these characteristics for classification of ice particle types as applied to operation of the ATLID (ATmospheric LIDar) high spectral resolution lidar [29, 30]. The problem of determining the size of ice crystals remains unsolved because there are as yet no effective algorithms for retrieving the size of cirrus cloud ice particles and the data obtained by laser sensing of the atmosphere weakly depend on the particle size [28].
Information about the size of atmospheric ice crystals is necessary for solving such climatic problems as the problem of radiation transfer, prediction of global disasters, and others, as well as for inclusion into present-day models of the global climate change and long-term weather forecasts.
The idea of joint sensing the same volume of a cirrus cloud by a lidar and a radar seems to be promising for solving the problem of determining the size of cloud crystals under the assumption that the distributions of ice crystals and their microphysical characteristics during such measurements remain unchanged.
As we have already shown in [31], the ratio of radar to lidar backscattering signals (the radar–lidar ratio) in the process of joint sensing the same volume of a cirrus cloud by a lidar and a radar does not depend on the specific number of particles and, as a consequence, characterizes only microphysics of ice crystals. This is caused by the fact that the radar signal is mainly determined by the specific volume of the particles under study and the lidar signal is mainly sensitive to the particle projection area. As a consequence, their ratio is sensitive just to the particle size.
In spite of the absence of the theoretical solution, experiments on joint sensing of the cirrus cloudiness by a lidar and a radar have been carried out for about 30 years. The first work combining lidar and radar measurements of cirrus clouds was performed in 1993 by Intrieri et al. [32]. The authors could retrieve the vertical profiles of the effective size of a crystal from data of joint measurements by a lidar and a radar. However, because of insufficient development of numerical methods in 1993, scattering by cirrus cloud particles was modeled within the framework of the Lorentz–Mie theory [33, 34], which is not correct because the shape and orientation of nonspherical particles mostly observed in cirrus clouds [12, 35] have a significant effect on light scattering [36]. In spite of this shortcoming, the work became widely known and its results are used for interpreting experimental data [18, 37–40]. However, the problem of accuracy in retrieving the average size of cirrus cloud ice particles when using the above suggested technique remains unsolved. Later, other algorithms of joint simultaneous measurements by space radiometers, radars, and lidars were developed and studied (for example, [18, 37–40]). We also corroborated the possibility and effectiveness of retrieving particle size from data of joint sensing in theoretical calculations for a 35‑GHz radar (the wavelength λ = 8565 µm) and a lidar (0.532 µm) mounted in southeast China (Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei) [31].
As soon as in March 2023, the EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) satellite [41], on board of which the ATLID lidar (λ = 0.355 µm) and the CPR (Cloud Profiling Radar) radar at a frequency of 94 GHz (λ = 3189 µm) are to jointly operate, will be launched into Earth orbit. In connection with this, it is necessary to construct an optical model of cirrus cloudiness for the wavelengths of the ATLID lidar CPR radar mounted on the satellite with the aim of interpreting the data of joint sensing by the lidar and radar. This work is devoted to solving this problem.
METHODOLOGY
To construct the optical model of cirrus clouds for wavelengths of the ATLID lidar and CPR radar mounted on the EarthCARE satellite, the database necessary for interpreting the joint measurements by the radar and lidar was calculated on the computational cluster of the Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Instead of the quantities measured experimentally, the theoretical calculations involve light backscattering matrices Mlid (the Mueller matrix [42]) for the lidar wavelengths and backscattering matrices of microwave radiation Mrad for the radar wavelengths.
For the ATLID lidar (λ = 0.355 µm), the light backscattering matrices for spherical particles were calculated within the framework of the Lorentz–Mie theory [34, 43]; for all other types of particles, the physical optics method [44, 45] was used. The refractive index of ice was taken as 1.3249 + 0i. For the 94‑GHz CPR radar (λ = 3189 µm), the backscattering matrices of microwave radiation were calculated in the discrete dipole approximation developed by Yurkin [46, 47]; in that case, the refractive index of ice was taken as 1.7864 + 0.0032i.
The following shapes of randomly oriented particles were simulated: hexagonal columns and plates, bullets, droxtals, aggregates, bullet-rosettes, particles of an arbitrary shape, and spherical particles (Fig. 1). When simulating by the discrete dipole method, the particles were represented by a set of 4000 to 20 000 dipoles depending on the particle size.
It is accepted to define dimensions of large nonspherical cirrus cloud particles by their maximal size (the distance between the most remote points of the particle) Dmax [48]; in our calculations, it varied within the range from 4 to 1000 µm. Thus, the typical crystal size significantly exceeds the wavelength of the lidar but is less than the wavelength of the radar.
RESULTS
When solving the problem of light scattering by particles much smaller than the incident radiation wavelength, the solution can be analytically represented; this is the so-called Rayleigh scattering (Rayleigh approximation) [49]. However, calculations obtained by the discrete dipole method demonstrate that the Rayleigh approximation is inapplicable to particles with a size exceeding 200 µm for the radar wavelength 3189 µm. Figure 2a shows the element \({\mathbf{M}}_{{11}}^{{{\text{rad}}}}\) of the scattering matrix as a function of Dmax. It is seen that the solution has a strong scatter depending on the particle shape. This contradiction can be explained with allowance for the fact that scattering by particles much smaller than the incident radiation wavelength depends not on the size but on the volume of a particle. For this reason, we propose to introduce another parameter characterizing the particle size, namely, the equivalent radius Req which has a simple physical meaning: this is the radius of a sphere whose volume coincides with the volume of the particle under study:
where Vpart is the volume of the nonspherical particle.
Comparison of Figs. 2a and 2b shows that the definition of the particle size via the equivalent radius Req instead of the commonly accepted maximal size Dmax allows one to obtain a good agreement with the Rayleigh approximation for all types of particles in the size range Req < 200 µm for the 94-Ghz radar.
We have already obtained the solution of the problem of light scattering for the ATLID lidar with λ = 0.355 µm [28] and presented it in the database [50]. As an illustration, Fig. 3 shows the element \({\mathbf{M}}_{{11}}^{{{\text{lid}}}}\) of the light backscattering matrix as a function of the maximal size Dmax and equivalent radius Req of the particle.
After we could solve the problem of scattering by cirrus cloud ice particles as applied to the ATLID and CPR, we could calculate the radar–lidar ratio.
Figure 4 shows the radar–lidar ratio calculated by the formula
Here, \({{\beta }^{{r,\;l}}}\) is the backscattering coefficient of the radar and lidar radiation; c is the particle density in the cloud; \({{\sigma }^{{r,\;l}}}\) is the differential back scattering cross section of a single crystal (it is averaged over the statistical ensemble of crystals in the cloud); and \({\mathbf{M}}_{{11}}^{{{\text{lid}}}}\) and \({\mathbf{M}}_{{11}}^{{{\text{rad}}}}\) were obtained when the scattering problem was solved by the physical optics method and in the discrete dipole approximation, respectively. The solution was obtained for ice particles presented in Fig. 1 as a function of the crystal maximal size (Fig. 4a) and the equivalent radius (Fig. 4b). Here, we assume the particle density to be equal in the cloud regions distinguished by the lidar and the radar is the same.
It is seen from Fig. 4 that the definition of the particle size in terms of the equivalent radius Req is preferable when using the ratio χ for retrieving the size because the curves, obviously, weakly depend on crystal shapes and the dependence on the crystal size remains strong. These results corroborate that the radar–lidar ratio is effective for retrieving the crystal size.
DISCUSSION
Formula (1) involves the following assumptions: a radar and a lidar observe the same ensemble of ice crystals (although the fields of vision of the instruments are different) and the cloud is homogeneous both in the orientation of the crystals and in their size. Within the scope of this work, we do not consider the question of how such assumptions are allowable; therefore, special attention should be paid to this when interpreting the experimental data. Besides, ice crystals in cirrus clouds are not monodisperse but are distributed over sizes. Since the question of choosing the law of crystal size distribution is still under discussion, we chose the gamma distribution proposed in works by Okamoto [51, 52] as a preliminary estimate.
Let us estimate the effect of the size distribution on the radar–lidar ratio using the gamma distribution in its simplest form (k = 2):
where p is the probability density; Γ(k) is the gamma function; and θ and k are the parameters of the gamma distribution.
The radar–lidar ratios averaged with the use of the gamma distribution over the ensemble of ice crystals with a fixed shape are shown in Fig. 5 as functions of the modal radius Rmod = (k − 1)θ which has a simple physical meaning: this is the most frequent crystal size in the distribution.
As seen from Fig. 5, ensemble averaging of particles in the cloud has an effect on the absolute value of the radar–lidar ratio χ; however, the dependence on size still remains strong. It is seen that a change in the modal size by an order of magnitude (from 10 to 100 µm) leads to a change in χ almost by three orders. This fact proves the effectiveness of using the radar–lidar ratio for determining the particle size in a cloud.
Certainly, the proposed law of the particle size gamma distribution is of illustrative character and the problem of choosing an adequate particle size distribution in a cloud should be considered in detail later.
CONCLUSIONS
Thus, within the framework of the physical optics approximation and discrete dipole method, the ratio of the radar signal to the lidar signal has been calculated for the first time for a realistic model of dimensions and shapes of cirrus cloud ice crystals for the EarthCARE spacecraft. It has been shown that it is the radar–lidar ratio that is the most informative for reconstructing the size of crystals regardless of their shape. It is planned to use the results obtained when creating algorithms for interpreting data of joint sensing by the lidar and the radar of the EarthCARE satellite.
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Shishko, V.A., Timofeev, D.N., Konoshonkin, A.V. et al. Backscattering Characteristics of Optical and Electromagnetic Waves in Joint Sensing of Cirrus Clouds by a Polarizing Lidar (0.355 µm) and a 94-GHz Radar. Atmos Ocean Opt 35, 775–781 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856022060239
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