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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6749-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6749-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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20 Oct 2021
Research article |
| 20 Oct 2021
| 20 Oct 2021
Comparison of mid-latitude single- and mixed-phase cloud optical depth from co-located infrared spectrometer and backscatter lidar measurements
Gianluca Di Natale
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Marco Barucci
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Claudio Belotti
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Giovanni Bianchini
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Francesco D'Amato
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Samuele Del Bianco
Institute of Applied Physics, CNR-IFAC, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Marco Gai
Institute of Applied Physics, CNR-IFAC, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Alessio Montori
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Ralf Sussmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Silvia Viciani
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Hannes Vogelmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Luca Palchetti
National Institute of Optics, CNR-INO, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Data sets
FIRMOS 2018-2019 Zugspitze campaign dataset L. Palchetti, M. Barucci, C. Belotti, G. Bianchini, B. Cluzet, F. D'Amato, S. Del Bianco, G. Di Natale, M. Gai, D. Khordakova, A. Montori, H. Oetjen, M. Rettinger, C. Rolf, D. Schuettemeyer, R. Sussmann, S. Viciani, H. Vogelmann, and F. G. Wienhold https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-38034ee
Short summary
The importance of cirrus and mixed-phase clouds in the Earth radiation budget has been proven by many studies. In this paper the properties that characterize these clouds are retrieved from lidar and far-infrared spectral measurements performed in winter 2018/19 on the Zugspitze (Germany). The synergy of lidar and spectrometer measurements allowed us to assess the exponent k of the power-law relationship between the backscattering and the extinction coefficients.
The importance of cirrus and mixed-phase clouds in the Earth radiation budget has been proven by...
