2011 CloudSat News

2C-PRECIP-COLUMN and 2C-RAIN-PROFILE released to the General Science Community

New data products containing surface precipitation occurrence and intensity and profiles of precipitation liquid and ice water content.

CEN visit through South Africa

Peter Falcon from CloudSat and Mark Brettenny from the Africa Regional Office undertook a roadtrip to promote both the CloudSat Education Network and the GLOBE Program in Africa.

Diagnosis of the warm rain process in cloud-resolving models using joint CloudSat and MODIS observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Science paper examines the warm rain formation process in global and regional cloud-resolving models analyzing CloudSat and MODIS satellite observations.

The impact of precipitating ice and snow on the radiation balance in global climate models

New GRL paper using CloudSat observations provides the first way to distinguish between cloud versus precipitating ice mass and characterize its vertical structure.

Severe Weather Outbreak

CloudSat profiles severe weather over the US on April 15 and 16th, 2011.

Canada Snow Storm

CloudSat overpasses a snow storm over New Brunswick, Canada on Feb. 28, 2011.

Tropical Cyclone Carlos

CloudSat completes an eye overpass of Tropical Cyclone Carlos.

Thunderstorms over the Amazon

CloudSat overpasses a developing thunderstorm in Brazil.

Tropical Cyclone Bingiza

CloudSat overpasses Tropical Cyclone Bingiza over Madagascar.

Tropical Cyclone Yasi

CloudSat overpasses Tropical Cyclone Yasi near the Australia coast.

Queensland Flooding

CloudSat captures the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Tasha and more heavy in Australia

December 2010 Mid Atlantic Snow Storm

CloudSat profiles the snow storm on December 27, 2010