Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer

Richardson, Mark; Leinonen, Jussi; Cronk, Heather Q.; McDuffie, James; Lebsock, Matthew D.; Stephens, Graeme L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019

© 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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18 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 18 Mar 2019

Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer

Mark Richardson, Jussi Leinonen, Heather Q. Cronk, James McDuffie, Matthew D. Lebsock, and Graeme L. Stephens

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 25 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Mark Richardson, 12 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Mark Richardson, 12 Feb 2019
RC3: 'review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Dec 2018
- AC3: 'Response to RC3', Mark Richardson, 12 Feb 2019

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AR by Mark Richardson on behalf of the Authors (12 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (20 Feb 2019) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Mark Richardson on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2019)

Short summary

We retrieve cloud properties, including geometric thickness, by combining hyperspectral Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) A-band measurements with CALIPSO lidar. This uses cloudy scene data that are not used in OCO-2's main mission, which is aimed at clear-sky atmospheric CO₂ abundance. This is the first retrieval using such hyperspectral information and promises to provide a unique constraint on the properties of low liquid clouds over the ocean.