Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3067-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3067-2019
Research article
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06 Jun 2019
Research article |  | 06 Jun 2019

Revisiting particle sizing using greyscale optical array probes: evaluation using laboratory experiments and synthetic data

Sebastian J. O'Shea, Jonathan Crosier, James Dorsey, Waldemar Schledewitz, Ian Crawford, Stephan Borrmann, Richard Cotton, and Aaron Bansemer

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Short summary
Optical array probe measurements of clouds are widely used to inform and validate numerical weather and climate models. In this paper, we discuss artefacts which may bias data from these instruments. Using laboratory and synthetic datasets, we demonstrate how greyscale analysis can be used to filter data, constraining the sample volume and improving data quality particularly at small sizes where their measurements are considered unreliable.