Intercomparison of aerosol volume size distributions derived from AERONET ground-based remote sensing and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011–2014 DRAGON and DISCOVER-AQ experiments

Schafer, Joel S.; Eck, Tom F.; Holben, Brent N.; Thornhill, Kenneth L.; Ziemba, Luke D.; Sawamura, Patricia; Moore, Richard H.; Slutsker, Ilya; Anderson, Bruce E.; Sinyuk, Alexander; Giles, David M.; Smirnov, Alexander; Beyersdorf, Andreas J.; Winstead, Edward L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5289-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5289-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5289-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 10

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07 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 07 Oct 2019

Intercomparison of aerosol volume size distributions derived from AERONET ground-based remote sensing and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011–2014 DRAGON and DISCOVER-AQ experiments

Joel S. Schafer, Tom F. Eck, Brent N. Holben, Kenneth L. Thornhill, Luke D. Ziemba, Patricia Sawamura, Richard H. Moore, Ilya Slutsker, Bruce E. Anderson, Alexander Sinyuk, David M. Giles, Alexander Smirnov, Andreas J. Beyersdorf, and Edward L. Winstead

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RC2: 'Review of “Intercomparison of aerosol volumen size distributions derived from AERONET ground based remote sensing and LARGE in-situ aircraft profiles during 2011-2014 DRAGON and DISCOVER-AQ experiments” by Schafer and coauthors.', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Jun 2019
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Two independent datasets of column-integrated size distributions of atmospheric aerosols were compared during four 1-month regional campaigns from 2011 to 2014 in four US states. One set of measurements was from observations at multiple locations at the surface using retrievals from sun photometers, while the other relied on in situ aircraft sampling. These campaigns represent the most extensive comparison of AERONET size distributions with aircraft sampling of particle size on record.