doi:https://doi.org/

Volume 14, issue 4

Volumes and issues

Volume 14, issue 4

06 Apr 2021

Applicability of the VisiSize D30 shadowgraph system for cloud microphysical measurements

Jakub L. Nowak, Moein Mohammadi, and Szymon P. Malinowski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2615–2633, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2615-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2615-2021, 2021

Short summary

06 Apr 2021

A reel-down instrument system for profile measurements of water vapor, temperature, clouds, and aerosol beneath constant-altitude scientific balloons

Lars E. Kalnajs, Sean M. Davis, J. Douglas Goetz, Terry Deshler, Sergey Khaykin, Alex St. Clair, Albert Hertzog, Jerome Bordereau, and Alexey Lykov

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2635–2648, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2635-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2635-2021, 2021

Short summary

07 Apr 2021

Study on the measurement of isoprene by differential optical absorption spectroscopy

Song Gao, Shanshan Wang, Chuanqi Gu, Jian Zhu, Ruifeng Zhang, Yanlin Guo, Yuhao Yan, and Bin Zhou

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2649–2657, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2649-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2649-2021, 2021

07 Apr 2021

Radiative transfer acceleration based on the principal component analysis and lookup table of corrections: optimization and application to UV ozone profile retrievals

Juseon Bak, Xiong Liu, Robert Spurr, Kai Yang, Caroline R. Nowlan, Christopher Chan Miller, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, and Kelly Chance

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2659–2672, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2659-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2659-2021, 2021

Short summary

07 Apr 2021

The effect of low-level thin arctic clouds on shortwave irradiance: evaluation of estimates from spaceborne passive imagery with aircraft observations

Hong Chen, Sebastian Schmidt, Michael D. King, Galina Wind, Anthony Bucholtz, Elizabeth A. Reid, Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer, William L. Smith, Patrick C. Taylor, Seiji Kato, and Peter Pilewskie

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2673–2697, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2673-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2673-2021, 2021

Short summary

08 Apr 2021

Applying machine learning methods to detect convection using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) advanced baseline imager (ABI) data

Yoonjin Lee, Christian D. Kummerow, and Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2699–2716, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2699-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2699-2021, 2021

Short summary

08 Apr 2021

Determination of the emission rates of CO₂ point sources with airborne lidar

Sebastian Wolff, Gerhard Ehret, Christoph Kiemle, Axel Amediek, Mathieu Quatrevalet, Martin Wirth, and Andreas Fix

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2717–2736, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2717-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2717-2021, 2021

Short summary

08 Apr 2021

Improving atmospheric path attenuation estimates for radio propagation applications by microwave radiometric profiling

Ayham Alyosef, Domenico Cimini, Lorenzo Luini, Carlo Riva, Frank S. Marzano, Marianna Biscarini, Luca Milani, Antonio Martellucci, Sabrina Gentile, Saverio T. Nilo, Francesco Di Paola, Ayman Alkhateeb, and Filomena Romano

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2737–2748, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2737-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2737-2021, 2021

Short summary

08 Apr 2021

Integrated water vapor and liquid water path retrieval using a single-channel radiometer

Anne-Claire Billault-Roux and Alexis Berne

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2749–2769, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2749-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2749-2021, 2021

Short summary

12 Apr 2021

| Highlight paper

High-frequency monitoring of anomalous methane point sources with multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite observations

Daniel J. Varon, Dylan Jervis, Jason McKeever, Ian Spence, David Gains, and Daniel J. Jacob

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2771–2785, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2771-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2771-2021, 2021

Short summary

12 Apr 2021

Reducing cloud contamination in aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements

Verena Schenzinger and Axel Kreuter

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2787–2798, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2787-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2787-2021, 2021

Short summary

12 Apr 2021

Elemental analysis of oxygenated organic coating on black carbon particles using a soot-particle aerosol mass spectrometer

Mutian Ma, Laura-Hélèna Rivellini, YuXi Cui, Megan D. Willis, Rio Wilkie, Jonathan P. D. Abbatt, Manjula R. Canagaratna, Junfeng Wang, Xinlei Ge, and Alex K. Y. Lee

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2799–2812, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2799-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2799-2021, 2021

Short summary

12 Apr 2021

Validation of wind measurements of two mesosphere–stratosphere–troposphere radars in northern Sweden and in Antarctica

Evgenia Belova, Peter Voelger, Sheila Kirkwood, Susanna Hagelin, Magnus Lindskog, Heiner Körnich, Sourav Chatterjee, and Karathazhiyath Satheesan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2813–2825, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2813-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2813-2021, 2021

Short summary

12 Apr 2021

Spectroscopic imaging of sub-kilometer spatial structure in lower-tropospheric water vapor

David R. Thompson, Brian H. Kahn, Philip G. Brodrick, Matthew D. Lebsock, Mark Richardson, and Robert O. Green

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2827–2840, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2827-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2827-2021, 2021

Short summary

13 Apr 2021

Estimation of the error covariance matrix for IASI radiances and its impact on the assimilation of ozone in a chemistry transport model

Mohammad El Aabaribaoune, Emanuele Emili, and Vincent Guidard

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2841–2856, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2841-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2841-2021, 2021

Short summary

13 Apr 2021

Explicit and consistent aerosol correction for visible wavelength satellite cloud and nitrogen dioxide retrievals based on optical properties from a global aerosol analysis

Alexander Vasilkov, Nickolay Krotkov, Eun-Su Yang, Lok Lamsal, Joanna Joiner, Patricia Castellanos, Zachary Fasnacht, and Robert Spurr

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2857–2871, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2857-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2857-2021, 2021

Short summary

13 Apr 2021

Detection of the melting level with polarimetric weather radar

Daniel Sanchez-Rivas and Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2873–2890, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2873-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2873-2021, 2021

Short summary

13 Apr 2021

Design and characterization of a new oxidation flow reactor for laboratory and long-term ambient studies

Ningjin Xu and Don R. Collins

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2891–2906, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2891-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2891-2021, 2021

Short summary

15 Apr 2021

A dedicated robust instrument for water vapor generation at low humidity for use with a laser water isotope analyzer in cold and dry polar regions

Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Mathieu Casado, Frédéric Prié, Olivier Jossoud, Erik Kerstel, Morgane Farradèche, Samir Kassi, Elise Fourré, and Amaëlle Landais

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2907–2918, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2907-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2907-2021, 2021

Short summary

16 Apr 2021

Determination of Aethalometer multiple-scattering enhancement parameters and impact on source apportionment during the winter 2017/18 EMEP/ACTRIS/COLOSSAL campaign in Milan

Vera Bernardoni, Luca Ferrero, Ezio Bolzacchini, Alice Corina Forello, Asta Gregorič, Dario Massabò, Griša Močnik, Paolo Prati, Martin Rigler, Luca Santagostini, Francesca Soldan, Sara Valentini, Gianluigi Valli, and Roberta Vecchi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2919–2940, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2919-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2919-2021, 2021

Short summary

17 Apr 2021

Two-dimensional monitoring of air pollution in Madrid using a Multi-AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy two-dimensional (MAXDOAS-2D) instrument

David Garcia-Nieto, Nuria Benavent, Rafael Borge, and Alfonso Saiz-Lopez

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2941–2955, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2941-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2941-2021, 2021

Short summary

20 Apr 2021

Can machine learning correct microwave humidity radiances for the influence of clouds?

Inderpreet Kaur, Patrick Eriksson, Simon Pfreundschuh, and David Ian Duncan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2957–2979, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2957-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2957-2021, 2021

Short summary

22 Apr 2021

Model-enforced post-process correction of satellite aerosol retrievals

Antti Lipponen, Ville Kolehmainen, Pekka Kolmonen, Antti Kukkurainen, Tero Mielonen, Neus Sabater, Larisa Sogacheva, Timo H. Virtanen, and Antti Arola

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2981–2992, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2981-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2981-2021, 2021

Short summary

22 Apr 2021

A method for random uncertainties validation and probing the natural variability with application to TROPOMI on board Sentinel-5P total ozone measurements

Viktoria F. Sofieva, Hei Shing Lee, Johanna Tamminen, Christophe Lerot, Fabian Romahn, and Diego G. Loyola

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2993–3002, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2993-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2993-2021, 2021

Short summary

22 Apr 2021

Statistically analyzing the effect of ionospheric irregularity on GNSS radio occultation atmospheric measurement

Mingzhe Li and Xinan Yue

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3003–3013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3003-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3003-2021, 2021

Short summary

26 Apr 2021

| Highlight paper

Revision of the World Meteorological Organization Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO/GAW) CO₂ calibration scale

Bradley D. Hall, Andrew M. Crotwell, Duane R. Kitzis, Thomas Mefford, Benjamin R. Miller, Michael F. Schibig, and Pieter P. Tans

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3015–3032, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3015-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3015-2021, 2021

Short summary

26 Apr 2021

Ground-based temperature and humidity profiling: combining active and passive remote sensors

David D. Turner and Ulrich Löhnert

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3033–3048, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3033-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3033-2021, 2021

Short summary

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

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3049–3070, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3049-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3049-2021, 2021

Short summary

27 Apr 2021

Long-term NO_x measurements in the remote marine tropical troposphere

Simone T. Andersen, Lucy J. Carpenter, Beth S. Nelson, Luis Neves, Katie A. Read, Chris Reed, Martyn Ward, Matthew J. Rowlinson, and James D. Lee

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3071–3085, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3071-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3071-2021, 2021

Short summary

28 Apr 2021

Retrieval of atmospheric CO₂ vertical profiles from ground-based near-infrared spectra

Sébastien Roche, Kimberly Strong, Debra Wunch, Joseph Mendonca, Colm Sweeney, Bianca Baier, Sébastien C. Biraud, Joshua L. Laughner, Geoffrey C. Toon, and Brian J. Connor

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3087–3118, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021, 2021

Short summary

28 Apr 2021

Performance of an open-path near-infrared measurement system for measurements of CO₂ and CH₄ during extended field trials

Nicholas M. Deutscher, Travis A. Naylor, Christopher G. R. Caldow, Hamish L. McDougall, Alex G. Carter, and David W. T. Griffith

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3119–3130, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3119-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3119-2021, 2021

Short summary

28 Apr 2021

Development of the drop Freezing Ice Nuclei Counter (FINC), intercomparison of droplet freezing techniques, and use of soluble lignin as an atmospheric ice nucleation standard

Anna J. Miller, Killian P. Brennan, Claudia Mignani, Jörg Wieder, Robert O. David, and Nadine Borduas-Dedekind

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3131–3151, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3131-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3131-2021, 2021

Short summary

29 Apr 2021

Observation of cirrus clouds with GLORIA during the WISE campaign: detection methods and cirrus characterization

Irene Bartolome Garcia, Reinhold Spang, Jörn Ungermann, Sabine Griessbach, Martina Krämer, Michael Höpfner, and Martin Riese

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3153–3168, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3153-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3153-2021, 2021

Short summary

29 Apr 2021

RainForest: a random forest algorithm for quantitative precipitation estimation over Switzerland

Daniel Wolfensberger, Marco Gabella, Marco Boscacci, Urs Germann, and Alexis Berne

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3169–3193, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3169-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3169-2021, 2021

Short summary

30 Apr 2021

Intercomparison and characterization of 23 Aethalometers under laboratory and ambient air conditions: procedures and unit-to-unit variabilities

Andrea Cuesta-Mosquera, Griša Močnik, Luka Drinovec, Thomas Müller, Sascha Pfeifer, María Cruz Minguillón, Björn Briel, Paul Buckley, Vadimas Dudoitis, Javier Fernández-García, María Fernández-Amado, Joel Ferreira De Brito, Veronique Riffault, Harald Flentje, Eimear Heffernan, Nikolaos Kalivitis, Athina-Cerise Kalogridis, Hannes Keernik, Luminita Marmureanu, Krista Luoma, Angela Marinoni, Michael Pikridas, Gerhard Schauer, Norbert Serfozo, Henri Servomaa, Gloria Titos, Jesús Yus-Díez, Natalia Zioła, and Alfred Wiedensohler

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3195–3216, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3195-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3195-2021, 2021

Short summary