CloudSat! On 28 th April the first spaceborne cloud radar was launched It joins Aqua: MODIS, CERES, AIRS, AMSU radiometers.

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CloudSat! On 28 th April the first spaceborne cloud radar was launched It joins Aqua: MODIS, CERES, AIRS, AMSU radiometers

One orbit: Tuesday last week Start of orbitEnd of orbit Greenland ice sheet Antarctic ice sheet 30 km of uncalibrated 94-GHz radar reflectivity factor Clouds!

June 13 th (Tuesday last week)

14.30 UTC June 13 th (Tuesday last week) Melting ice MODIS RGB composite CloudSat reflectivity factor Cirrus Altocumulus: mixed-phase? Optically thick ice cloud

13.10 UTC June 18 th Scotland England Lake district Isle of Wight France MODIS RGB composite

Scotland England Lake district Isle of Wight France MODIS Infrared window UTC June 18 th (Sunday)

Scotland England Lake district Isle of Wight France Met Office rain radar network UTC June 18 th (Sunday)

CloudSat was 10 km from Chilbolton at UTC Chilbolton 94-GHz radar Chilbolton lidar England Isle of Wight

Tropical convection: oceanic and orographic Papua New Guinea

Anvil cirrus

Complex cloud systems

Links CloudSat quicklooks: MODIS quicklooks: CloudSat work at Reading Julien Delanoe, Robin Hogan (multi-sensor retrievals) Lee Smith, Anthony Illingworth (stratocumulus retrievals) Nicky Chalmers, Robin Hogan (cloud radiative effects)