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

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Mar 2019)
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RC1: 'Review of "Improvement of Airborne Retrievals of Cloud Droplet Number Concentration of Trade Wind Cumulus..."', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Answer to referee #2.', Kevin Wolf, 26 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Review of Wolf et al. 'Improvement of Airborne Retrievals of Cloud Droplet Number Concentration of Trade Wind Cumulus Using a Synergetic Approach'', Anonymous Referee #3, 07 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to referee #3.', Kevin Wolf, 26 Feb 2019

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AR by Kevin Wolf on behalf of the Authors (26 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Feb 2019) by Marloes Penning de Vries

AR by Kevin Wolf on behalf of the Authors (27 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Feb 2019) by Marloes Penning de Vries

AR by Kevin Wolf on behalf of the Authors (28 Feb 2019)

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.