A robust automated technique for operational calibration of ceilometers using the integrated backscatter from totally attenuating liquid clouds

Hopkin, Emma; Illingworth, Anthony J.; Charlton-Perez, Cristina; Westbrook, Chris D.; Ballard, Sue

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4131-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4131-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4131-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

Research article

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30 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 30 Jul 2019

A robust automated technique for operational calibration of ceilometers using the integrated backscatter from totally attenuating liquid clouds

Emma Hopkin, Anthony J. Illingworth, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Chris D. Westbrook, and Sue Ballard

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RC1: 'Review of: A robust automated technique for operational calibration of ceilometers using the integrated backscatter from totally attenuating liquid clouds', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Emma Hopkin, 01 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review for Manuscript ID: AMT-2018-427', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Emma Hopkin, 01 Apr 2019

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AR by Emma Hopkin on behalf of the Authors (01 Apr 2019) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 May 2019) by Andrew Sayer

Short summary

Ceilometers are laser cloud base recorders which retrieve information about atmospheric aerosol and differing cloud types. In order to ensure the information retrieved from the ceilometer is correct and comparable with other ceilometers in an observation network, a calibration is needed. Presented here is a novel automated calibration method, which includes a correction for the effects of water vapour in the atmosphere and shows its application on the UK Met Office's ceilometer network.