A comparison between CloudSat and aircraft data for a multilayer, mixed phase cloud system during the Canadian CloudSat‐CALIPSO Validation Project

Reflectivities recorded by the W‐band Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) aboard NASA's CloudSat satellite and some of CloudSat's retrieval products are compared to Ka‐band radar reflectivities and in situ cloud properties gathered by instrumentation on the NRC's Convair‐580 aircraft. On 20 February 2007, the Convair flew several transects along a 60 nautical mile stretch of CloudSat's afternoon ground track over southern Quebec. On one of the …