Improvement of airborne retrievals of cloud droplet number concentration of trade wind cumulus using a synergetic approach

Wolf, Kevin; Ehrlich, André; Jacob, Marek; Crewell, Susanne; Wirth, Martin; Wendisch, Manfred

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1635-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1635-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1635-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Research article

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13 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 13 Mar 2019

Improvement of airborne retrievals of cloud droplet number concentration of trade wind cumulus using a synergetic approach

Kevin Wolf, André Ehrlich, Marek Jacob, Susanne Crewell, Martin Wirth, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

HALO database Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T

HALO Microwave Package measurements during Next-generation Remote sensing for VALidation Studies 2 (NARVAL2) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/HALO_measurements_3

Short summary

Using passive spectral solar radiation and active lidar, radar, and microwave measurements with HALO during NARVAL-II, the cloud droplet number concentration of shallow trade wind cumulus is estimated. With stepwise inclusion of the different instruments into the retrieval, the benefits of the synergetic approach based on artificial measurements and two cloud cases are demonstrated. Significant improvement with the synergetic method compared to the solar-radiation-only method is reported.