著者

鷹野 敏明 山口 潤 阿部 英二 二葉 健一 横手 慎一 河村 洋平 高村 民雄 熊谷 博 大野 裕一 中西 裕治 中島 映至

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌A(基礎・材料・共通部門誌) (ISSN:03854205)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.128, no.4, pp.257-262, 2008-04-01 (Released:2008-04-01)

参考文献数

7

被引用文献数

4 6

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We developed a cloud profiling radar, named FALCON-I, transmitting frequency-modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) at 95 GHz for high sensitivity and high spatial resolution ground-based observations. Millimeter wave at 95 GHz is used to realize high sensitivity to small cloud particles. An FM-CW type radar realizes similar sensitivity with much smaller output power to a pulse type radar. Two 1m-diameter parabolic antennas separated by 1.4m each other are used for transmitting and receiving the wave. The direction of the antennas is fixed at the zenith at this moment. The radar can observe clouds up to 20 km in height with a resolution of 9 m. Beam size of the antenna is as small as 0.2 degree of arc, which corresponds to 15 m at the range of 5 km. Observation results showed that the sensitivity of -34 dBZ is realized at 5 km in range, and good spatial resolutions.

著者

小田 僚子 岩井 宏徳 大野 裕一 川村 誠治 関澤 信也 石井 昌憲 水谷 耕平 村山 泰啓

出版者

社団法人日本気象学会

雑誌

大会講演予講集

巻号頁・発行日

vol.97, 2010-04-30

著者

菊池 麻紀 沖 理子 久保田 拓志 吉田 真由美 萩原 雄一朗 高橋 千賀子 大野 裕一 西澤 智明 中島 孝 鈴木 健太郎 佐藤 正樹 岡本 創 富田 英一

出版者

一般社団法人 日本リモートセンシング学会

雑誌

日本リモートセンシング学会誌 (ISSN:02897911)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.3, pp.181-196, 2019-07-20 (Released:2020-01-20)

参考文献数

66

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The Earth, Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is a European-Japanese joint satellite mission that aims to provide the global observations necessary to advance our understanding of clouds and aerosols and their radiative effect on the Earth’s climate system. Toward this goal, the EarthCARE satellite loads two active instruments, Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) and Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID), offering vertical profiles of clouds and aerosols, together with light drizzles, whose properties are extended horizontally using complementary measurement by Multispectral Imager (MSI). The properties thus obtained are then used to estimate outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere, which is evaluated against measurements taken by the fourth sensor, Broadband Radiometer (BBR). Such a “closure assessment” is used to give feedback to the microphysical property profiles and optimize them, if necessary, to offer consistent three-dimensional datasets of cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation fields. EarthCARE’s integrative global observation of clouds, aerosols and radiation with the new measurement capabilities, particularly with Doppler velocity, is expected to not only extend the A-Train measurement toward a longer-term climate record, but also to advance our perspective on the fundamental role that global clouds have within the climate system in the context of their relationships to dynamical processes and their interactions with aerosols and radiation. This review paper provides an overview of the mission, the satellite and its payloads, with a particular focus on the algorithm and products developed in Japan, and areas of scientific study expected to progress.