Ice crystal number concentration from lidar, cloud radar and radar wind profiler measurements

Bühl, Johannes; Seifert, Patric; Radenz, Martin; Baars, Holger; Ansmann, Albert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6601-2019

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13 Dec 2019

Research article |

| 13 Dec 2019

Ice crystal number concentration from lidar, cloud radar and radar wind profiler measurements

Johannes Bühl, Patric Seifert, Martin Radenz, Holger Baars, and Albert Ansmann

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

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RC1: 'Review to Buehl et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to reviewer comments', Johannes Bühl, 20 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Review for amt-2019-154', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to reviewer comments', Johannes Bühl, 20 Sep 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Johannes Bühl on behalf of the Authors (07 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Oct 2019) by Johannes Schneider

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish as is (29 Oct 2019) by Johannes Schneider

AR by Johannes Bühl on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2019) Manuscript

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AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Johannes Bühl on behalf of the Authors (03 Dec 2019) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (05 Dec 2019) by Johannes Schneider

Short summary

In the present paper, we present a novel remote-sensing technique for the measurement of ice crystal number concentrations in clouds. The fall velocity of ice crystals measured with values from cloud radar and a radar wind profiler is used in order to derive information about ice crystal size and number concentration. In contrast to existing methods based on the combination of lidar and cloud radar, the present method can also be used in optically thick clouds.