HOVERCAT: a novel aerial system for evaluation of aerosol–cloud interactions

Creamean, Jessie M.; Primm, Katherine M.; Tolbert, Margaret A.; Hall, Emrys G.; Wendell, Jim; Jordan, Allen; Sheridan, Patrick J.; Smith, Jedediah; Schnell, Russell C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3969-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3969-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3969-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

Research article

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06 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 06 Jul 2018

HOVERCAT: a novel aerial system for evaluation of aerosol–cloud interactions

Jessie M. Creamean, Katherine M. Primm, Margaret A. Tolbert, Emrys G. Hall, Jim Wendell, Allen Jordan, Patrick J. Sheridan, Jedediah Smith, and Russell C. Schnell

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RC1: 'Anonymous review of the manuscript “HOVERCAT: A novel aerial system for evaluation of aerosol-cloud interactions”', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Jessie Creamean, 23 May 2018
RC2: 'Review of HOVERCAT by Creamean et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Jessie Creamean, 23 May 2018

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AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 May 2018) by Joachim Curtius

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Jun 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Jun 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Jun 2018) by Joachim Curtius

Short summary

A new balloon-borne system has been developed to measure the properties of aerosol particles that form cloud ice in the lower troposphere, called HOVERCAT (Honing On VERtical Cloud and Aerosol properTies). Test flights in Colorado demonstrated the utility of HOVERCAT for profiling these ice nucleating particles (INPs), where we found higher numbers of INPs from agricultural sources. Measurements by HOVERCAT can help improve understanding of how aerosols impact clouds in the atmosphere.