Aerosol and cloud top height information of Envisat MIPAS measurements

Griessbach, Sabine; Hoffmann, Lars; Spang, Reinhold; Achtert, Peggy; von Hobe, Marc; Mateshvili, Nina; Müller, Rolf; Riese, Martin; Rolf, Christian; Seifert, Patric; Vernier, Jean-Paul

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1243-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1243-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1243-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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13 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 13 Mar 2020

Aerosol and cloud top height information of Envisat MIPAS measurements

Sabine Griessbach, Lars Hoffmann, Reinhold Spang, Peggy Achtert, Marc von Hobe, Nina Mateshvili, Rolf Müller, Martin Riese, Christian Rolf, Patric Seifert, and Jean-Paul Vernier

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RC1: 'Referee Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to review 1', Sabine Grießbach, 06 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to review 2', Sabine Grießbach, 06 Dec 2019

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Jan 2020) by Andrew Sayer

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (19 Jan 2020)

ED: Publish as is (22 Jan 2020) by Andrew Sayer

AR by Sabine Grießbach on behalf of the Authors (22 Jan 2020)

Short summary

In this paper we study the cloud top height derived from MIPAS measurements. Previous studies showed contradictory results with respect to MIPAS, both underestimating and overestimating cloud top height. We used simulations and found that overestimation and/or underestimation depend on cloud extinction. To support our findings we compared MIPAS cloud top heights of volcanic sulfate aerosol with measurements from CALIOP, ground-based lidar, and ground-based twilight measurements.