Mind the gap – Part 1: Accurately locating warm marine boundary layer clouds and precipitation using spaceborne radars

Lamer, Katia; Kollias, Pavlos; Battaglia, Alessandro; Preval, Simon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2363-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2363-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2363-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Research article

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14 May 2020

Research article |

| 14 May 2020

Mind the gap – Part 1: Accurately locating warm marine boundary layer clouds and precipitation using spaceborne radars

Katia Lamer, Pavlos Kollias, Alessandro Battaglia, and Simon Preval

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Final revised paper (published on 14 May 2020)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of AMT-2019-473', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Feb 2020
- AC1: 'Author answer to reviewer 1', Katia Lamer, 03 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review of AMT-2019-473', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Feb 2020
- AC2: 'Author answer to reviewer 2', Katia Lamer, 03 Apr 2020
RC3: 'Review comment for the manuscript: Mind-the-gap part I: Accurately locating warm marine boundary layer clouds and precipitation using spaceborne radars by Katia Lamer et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Feb 2020
- AC3: 'Authors answer to reviewer 3', Katia Lamer, 03 Apr 2020

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

AR by Katia Lamer on behalf of the Authors (03 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Apr 2020) by Vassilis Amiridis

AR by Katia Lamer on behalf of the Authors (06 Apr 2020)

Short summary

According to ground-based radar observations, 50 % of liquid low-level clouds over the Atlantic extend below 1.2 km and are thinner than 400 m, thus limiting their detection from space. Using an emulator, we estimate that a 250 m resolution radar would capture cloud base better than the CloudSat radar which misses about 52 %. The more sensitive EarthCARE radar is expected to capture cloud cover but stretch cloud. This calls for the operation of interlaced pulse modes for future space missions.