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Table 1 Mean optical thickness of cloud layers at 920 nm based mainly on Venera entry probe data summarized by James et al. (1997).

In summary, we have decided to use parameters ΔTIR3.9 IR10.8 and ΔTIR10.8 IR12.0 that provide information about the CWP, and we incorporate the ΔTIR8.7 IR10.8, ∆TIR10.8 IR12.0 and TIR10.8, which give information about the thermodynamic phase and thickness of cloud.

Radiances obtained in the band (0.4 and 0.8 μm) are usually used to estimate the optical thickness of clouds (Arking and Childs 1985).

However, because no operational retrieval technique is currently available for MSG SEVIRI, that is applicable to water and ice clouds, and that is fast enough concerning the 15-min scan cycle, the authors decided to use the original reflectance of cannel (VIS0.6) and cannel (NIR1.6) SEVIRI channels, instead of computed values of effective droplet radius and optical thickness of clouds.

The CWP represents the amount of water vertically integrated in the cloud and depends on the diameter of raindrops and the thickness of the cloud formed by these drops.

For the cloud base pressure error, the standard deviation of the logarithm of the cloud base pressure is assumed to be approximately proportional to the geometrical thickness of the cloud, which is approximately proportional to ln(P bas/P top), as sigma ={S}_{mathrm{bas}} ln left(frac{P_{mathrm{bas}}}{P_{mathrm{top}}}right), (14).

Fig. 2 Optical thickness of three cloud layers measured by the entry probes summarized by James et al. (1997).

The optical thickness of each cloud layer shown in Fig. 2(h) is distributed to three particle modes (mode1, 2, and 3) and shown in Table 1.

The bright spot near the upper-left corner (36°N latitude) emits radiance of ~ 0.5 W m−2 suggesting suggesthat thet the optical thickness of the cloud approximates 18. (A continuum absorption coefficient of 2.5 × 10−8 cm−1 amagat−2 is assumed).

The most visible effects might include seeding clouds at very high altitudes, a process that could boost the frequency and thickness of such clouds for some as-yet-unknown interval, Moores says.

In addition indicators for ice water content and optical thickness of the clouds have been adopted.