Remote sensing of cloud droplet radius profiles using solar reflectance from cloud sides – Part 1: Retrieval development and characterization

Ewald, Florian; Zinner, Tobias; Kölling, Tobias; Mayer, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1183-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1183-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1183-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Research article

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25 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 25 Feb 2019

Remote sensing of cloud droplet radius profiles using solar reflectance from cloud sides – Part 1: Retrieval development and characterization

Florian Ewald, Tobias Zinner, Tobias Kölling, and Bernhard Mayer

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

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RC1: 'Review of Evald et al. paper “Remote Sensing of Cloud Droplet Radius Profiles using solar reflectance from cloud sides. Part I: Retrieval development and characterization”', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Florian Ewald, 31 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of MS No.: amt-2018-234', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Florian Ewald, 31 Dec 2018

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AR by Florian Ewald on behalf of the Authors (31 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Jan 2019) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Florian Ewald on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents a new method for gaining insights into the vertical evolution of cloud droplet effective radii by using reflected solar radiation from cloud sides. The paper investigates how bi-spectral effective radius retrievals are affected by unknown cloud surface orientations and presents a method to mitigate this effect. Based on these findings, this study develops a statistical effective radius retrieval for airborne, side-looking imaging sensors.