PHIPS-HALO: the airborne Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering probe – Part 3: Single-particle phase discrimination and particle size distribution based on the angular-scattering function

Waitz, Fritz; Schnaiter, Martin; Leisner, Thomas; Järvinen, Emma

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3049-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3049-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3049-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

Research article

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27 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 27 Apr 2021

PHIPS-HALO: the airborne Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering probe – Part 3: Single-particle phase discrimination and particle size distribution based on the angular-scattering function

Fritz Waitz, Martin Schnaiter, Thomas Leisner, and Emma Järvinen

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RC1: 'Interactive comment on “PHIPS-HALO: the airborne particle habit imaging and polar scattering probe - Part 3: Single Particle Phase Discrimination and Particle Size Distribution based on Angular Scattering Function” by F. Waitz et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Fritz Waitz, 18 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Comment on amt-2020-297', Greg McFarquhar, 25 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Fritz Waitz, 18 Jan 2021

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

AR by Fritz Waitz on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Feb 2021) by Andreas Macke

RR by V. Shcherbakov (17 Feb 2021)

RR by Greg McFarquhar (01 Mar 2021)

ED: Publish as is (01 Mar 2021) by Andreas Macke

Short summary

A major challenge in the observations of mixed-phase clouds remains the phase discrimination and sizing of cloud droplets and ice crystals, especially for particles with diameters smaller than 0.1 mm. Here, we present a new method to derive the phase and size of single cloud particles using their angular-light-scattering information. Comparisons with other in situ instruments in three case studies show good agreement.