INTEGRATED LIQUID WATER CONTENTS AND WATER VAPOR AMOUNTS IN MARCH 1988 AROUND SYOWA STATION

• Main Authors: ワダ マコト, セコ カツモト, ヤマノウチ タカシ, Makoto WADA, Katsumoto SEKO, Takashi YAMANOUCHI
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ABSTRACT 1992
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Syowa Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3750; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003750/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3750&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

It is very important in studying clouds and precipitation to precisely estimate vertically integrated liquid water content and water vapor amount in the atmosphere. Clouds and precipitation observations using microwave radiometer were carrid out at Syowa Station in East Antarctica in 1988. Vertically integrated liquid water contents at Syowa Station were estimated using ground based microwave radiometer data. In addition, water vapor amounts were measured by radiosonde observations. Moreover, vertically integrated liqiud water content and water vapor amount above the sea area near Syowa Station were also estimated using DMSP satellite SSM/I data. Our paper describes the results of estimations in March 1988. The maximum value of the vertically integrated liquid water contents associated with a fairly strong cyclone in March was about 55mg/(cm)^2 calculated by one-min mean data of the microwave radiometers, and the maximum value of the water vapor amounts in March was about 15mm, estimated from the radiosonde data. The maximum values of vertically integrated liqiud water content and water vapor amount were estimated to be about 25mg/(cm)^2 and 10mm, respectively, calculated from SSM/I data. The averaged water vapor on fine days in March was about 5mm, estimated from both ground and space observations. This paper has been submitted to the proccedings of the "Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications" in Boulder, Colorado in 1992.