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Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4959-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4959-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
Research article
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16 Jul 2021
Research article |  | 16 Jul 2021

Estimating the optical extinction of liquid water clouds in the cloud base region

Karolina Sarna, David P. Donovan, and Herman W. J. Russchenberg

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We show a method for obtaining cloud optical extinction with a lidar system. We use a scheme in which a lidar signal is inverted based on the estimated value of cloud extinction at the far end of the cloud and apply a correction for multiple scattering within the cloud and a range resolution correction. By applying our technique, we show that it is possible to obtain the cloud optical extinction with an error better than 5 % up to 90 m within the cloud.
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