CALIPSO lidar calibration at 532&thinsp;nm: version 4 daytime algorithm

Getzewich, Brian J.; Vaughan, Mark A.; Hunt, William H.; Avery, Melody A.; Powell, Kathleen A.; Tackett, Jason L.; Winker, David M.; Kar, Jayanta; Lee, Kam-Pui; Toth, Travis D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6309-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6309-2018

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CALIPSO version 4 algorithms and data products

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6309-2018

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22 Nov 2018

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| 22 Nov 2018

CALIPSO lidar calibration at 532 nm: version 4 daytime algorithm

Brian J. Getzewich, Mark A. Vaughan, William H. Hunt, Melody A. Avery, Kathleen A. Powell, Jason L. Tackett, David M. Winker, Jayanta Kar, Kam-Pui Lee, and Travis D. Toth

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RC1: 'Very nice paper that deserves to be published', J. Yorks, 11 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'authors' response to review by John Yorks', Mark Vaughan, 05 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review “CALIPSO lidar calibration at 532nm: V4 daytime algorithm” by Getzewich et al.', Zhien Wang, 05 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'authors' response to review by Zhien Wang', Mark Vaughan, 05 Nov 2018

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AR by Mark Vaughan on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2018)

Short summary

We describe the new architecture of the version 4 (V4) CALIOP 532 nm daytime calibration procedures. Critical differences from the versions include moving the night-to-day calibration transfer region into the lower stratosphere coupled to a multi-dimensional data averaging scheme. Comparisons to collocated high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) measurements shows that the V4 532 nm daytime attenuated backscatter coefficients replicate the HSRL data to within 1.0 % ± 3.5 %.