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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6505-2019
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6505-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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09 Dec 2019
Research article |
| 09 Dec 2019
| 09 Dec 2019
Above-cloud aerosol radiative effects based on ORACLES 2016 and ORACLES 2017 aircraft experiments
Sabrina P. Cochrane
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
K. Sebastian Schmidt
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Hong Chen
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Peter Pilewskie
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Scott Kittelman
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Jens Redemann
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
73019, USA
Samuel LeBlanc
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Kristina Pistone
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Meloë Kacenelenbogen
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Michal Segal Rozenhaimer
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Porter School of the
Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Yohei Shinozuka
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Connor Flynn
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354,
USA
Steven Platnick
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Kerry Meyer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Rich Ferrare
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Sharon Burton
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Chris Hostetler
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Steven Howell
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
96844, USA
Steffen Freitag
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
96844, USA
Amie Dobracki
Department of Atmospheric Science, Rosentiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
Sarah Doherty
Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Data sets
NASA Ames Earth Science Project Office: Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard ER2 During ORACLES 2016, Version 1 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/ER2/2016_V1
NASA Ames Earth Science Project Office: Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2016, Version 1 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2016_V1
NASA Ames Earth Science Project Office: Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2017, Version 1 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2017_V1
Short summary
For two cases from the NASA ORACLES experiments, we retrieve aerosol and cloud properties and calculate a direct aerosol radiative effect (DARE). We investigate the relationship between DARE and the cloud albedo by specifying the albedo for which DARE transitions from a cooling to warming radiative effect. Our new aerosol retrieval algorithm is successful despite complexities associated with scenes that contain aerosols above clouds and decreases the uncertainty on retrieved aerosol parameters.
For two cases from the NASA ORACLES experiments, we retrieve aerosol and cloud properties and...
