Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1639-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1639-2018
Research article
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26 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2018

Impact of varying lidar measurement and data processing techniques in evaluating cirrus cloud and aerosol direct radiative effects

Simone Lolli, Fabio Madonna, Marco Rosoldi, James R. Campbell, Ellsworth J. Welton, Jasper R. Lewis, Yu Gu, and Gelsomina Pappalardo

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AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (10 Dec 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Dec 2017) by Andrew Sayer
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Dec 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (22 Dec 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (04 Jan 2018)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (04 Jan 2018) by Andrew Sayer
AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Feb 2018) by Andrew Sayer
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Feb 2018)
ED: Publish as is (20 Feb 2018) by Andrew Sayer
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Short summary
We evaluate the comparability of aerosol and cloud vertically resolved optical properties obtained with varying lidar profiling techniques and/or data processing methodologies. The discrepancies are assessed by evaluating climate-sensitive direct radiative effects, computed by radiative transfer code means. Results show important discrepancies up to 0.8 W m−2 due to lidar data smoothing in cirrus clouds and a 0.05 W m−2 difference between Raman and elastic lidar technique on a dust layer aloft.