2000: Comparison of radar/radiometer retrievals of stratus cloud liquid water content profiles with in-situ measurements by aircraft

Although most meteorological radars lack the sensitivity to detect small cloud droplets, recent advances in millimeter-wave cloud radars provide new opportunities for monitoring the properties of non-precipitating clouds by remote sensing. The problem of retrieving the microphysical features of clouds is not straightforward, however, because radar actually measures a moment of the Dopple