Use of spectral cloud emissivities and their related uncertainties to infer ice cloud boundaries: methodology and assessment using CALIPSO cloud products

Kim, Hye-Sil; Baum, Bryan A.; Choi, Yong-Sang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5039-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5039-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5039-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

Research article

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19 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 19 Sep 2019

Use of spectral cloud emissivities and their related uncertainties to infer ice cloud boundaries: methodology and assessment using CALIPSO cloud products

Hye-Sil Kim, Bryan A. Baum, and Yong-Sang Choi

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'In general, the authors present an interesting idea. However, there are a number of clarifications that I suggest would be helpful to the reader, as I detail in the attached pdf.', Carynelisa Haspel, 16 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'response to the comments', Hye-Sil Kim, 06 Aug 2019
RC2: 'RC2', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'response to comments', Hye-Sil Kim, 06 Aug 2019
RC3: 'Comments on “Use of spectral cloud emissivity to infer ice cloud boundaries: Methodology and assessment using CALIPSO cloud products” by Kim et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'a question about the comment', Hye-Sil Kim, 29 Jul 2019
  - RC4: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 31 Jul 2019
    - AC4: 'response to comments', Hye-Sil Kim, 06 Aug 2019

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AR by Hye-Sil Kim on behalf of the Authors (08 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Aug 2019) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

Short summary

This study demonstrates that ice cloud emissivity uncertainties at 11, 12, and 13.3 µm can be used to provide a reasonable range of ice cloud layer boundaries. We test this methodology using MODIS Collection 6 cloud properties over the western North Pacific Ocean during August 2015. The cloud boundaries for single-layer optically thin ice clouds show good agreement with those from CALIOP version 4 products, with biases increasing for optically thick and multilayered clouds.