Retrieval of an ice water path over the ocean from ISMAR and MARSS millimeter and submillimeter brightness temperatures

Brath, Manfred; Fox, Stuart; Eriksson, Patrick; Harlow, R. Chawn; Burgdorf, Martin; Buehler, Stefan A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-611-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-611-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-611-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article

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01 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2018

Retrieval of an ice water path over the ocean from ISMAR and MARSS millimeter and submillimeter brightness temperatures

Manfred Brath, Stuart Fox, Patrick Eriksson, R. Chawn Harlow, Martin Burgdorf, and Stefan A. Buehler

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'See below comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'Author comments to Anonymous Referee \#1', Manfred Brath, 21 Oct 2017
RC2: 'AMT-2017-167 review', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Author comments to Anonymous Referee \#2', Manfred Brath, 21 Oct 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Manfred Brath on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (24 Oct 2017) by Mark Kulie

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Oct 2017) by Mark Kulie

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (05 Dec 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Dec 2017) by Mark Kulie

AR by Manfred Brath on behalf of the Authors (07 Dec 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

A method to estimate the amounts of ice, liquid water, and water vapor from aircraft radiation measurements at wavelengths just over and under 1 mm is presented and its performance is estimated. The method uses an ensemble of artificial neural networks. It strongly benefits from the submillimeter frequencies reducing the error for the estimated amount of ice by a factor of 2 compared to a traditional microwave method. The method was applied to measurement of a precipitating frontal system.