Volume 14, issue 5

Volume 14, issue 5

03 May 2021
Intercomparison of thermal–optical carbon measurements by Sunset and Desert Research Institute (DRI) analyzers using the IMPROVE_A protocol
Xiaolu Zhang, Krystyna Trzepla, Warren White, Sean Raffuse, and Nicole Pauly Hyslop
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3217–3231, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3217-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3217-2021, 2021
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03 May 2021
Analysis of simultaneous aerosol and ocean glint retrieval using multi-angle observations
Kirk Knobelspiesse, Amir Ibrahim, Bryan Franz, Sean Bailey, Robert Levy, Ziauddin Ahmad, Joel Gales, Meng Gao, Michael Garay, Samuel Anderson, and Olga Kalashnikova
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3233–3252, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3233-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3233-2021, 2021
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04 May 2021
Version 4 CALIPSO Imaging Infrared Radiometer ice and liquid water cloud microphysical properties – Part I: The retrieval algorithms
Anne Garnier, Jacques Pelon, Nicolas Pascal, Mark A. Vaughan, Philippe Dubuisson, Ping Yang, and David L. Mitchell
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3253–3276, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3253-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3253-2021, 2021
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04 May 2021
Version 4 CALIPSO Imaging Infrared Radiometer ice and liquid water cloud microphysical properties – Part II: Results over oceans
Anne Garnier, Jacques Pelon, Nicolas Pascal, Mark A. Vaughan, Philippe Dubuisson, Ping Yang, and David L. Mitchell
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3277–3299, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3277-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3277-2021, 2021
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04 May 2021
The INFRA-EAR: a low-cost mobile multidisciplinary measurement platform for monitoring geophysical parameters
Olivier F. C. den Ouden, Jelle D. Assink, Cornelis D. Oudshoorn, Dominique Filippi, and Läslo G. Evers
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3301–3317, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3301-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3301-2021, 2021
06 May 2021
Consistency of total column ozone measurements between the Brewer and Dobson spectroradiometers of the LKO Arosa and PMOD/WRC Davos
Julian Gröbner, Herbert Schill, Luca Egli, and René Stübi
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3319–3331, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3319-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3319-2021, 2021
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06 May 2021
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Assimilation of DAWN Doppler wind lidar data during the 2017 Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX): impact on precipitation and flow structure
Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Sara Q. Zhang, F. Joseph Turk, Ziad S. Haddad, and Randy C. Sawaya
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3333–3350, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3333-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3333-2021, 2021
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06 May 2021
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Captive Aerosol Growth and Evolution (CAGE) chamber system to investigate particle growth due to secondary aerosol formation
Candice L. Sirmollo, Don R. Collins, Jordan M. McCormick, Cassandra F. Milan, Matthew H. Erickson, James H. Flynn, Rebecca J. Sheesley, Sascha Usenko, Henry W. Wallace, Alexander A. T. Bui, Robert J. Griffin, Matthew Tezak, Sean M. Kinahan, and Joshua L. Santarpia
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3351–3370, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3351-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3351-2021, 2021
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07 May 2021
Evaluation of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) neural network cloud detection against current operational cloud masks
Charles H. White, Andrew K. Heidinger, and Steven A. Ackerman
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3371–3394, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3371-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3371-2021, 2021
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11 May 2021
Optimal use of the Prede POM sky radiometer for aerosol, water vapor, and ozone retrievals
Rei Kudo, Henri Diémoz, Victor Estellés, Monica Campanelli, Masahiro Momoi, Franco Marenco, Claire L. Ryder, Osamu Ijima, Akihiro Uchiyama, Kouichi Nakashima, Akihiro Yamazaki, Ryoji Nagasawa, Nozomu Ohkawara, and Haruma Ishida
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3395–3426, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3395-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3395-2021, 2021
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12 May 2021
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Introducing hydrometeor orientation into all-sky microwave and submillimeter assimilation
Vasileios Barlakas, Alan J. Geer, and Patrick Eriksson
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3427–3447, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3427-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3427-2021, 2021
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12 May 2021
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A Dark Target research aerosol algorithm for MODIS observations over eastern China: increasing coverage while maintaining accuracy at high aerosol loading
Yingxi R. Shi, Robert C. Levy, Leiku Yang, Lorraine A. Remer, Shana Mattoo, and Oleg Dubovik
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3449–3468, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3449-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3449-2021, 2021
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12 May 2021
Beef cattle methane emissions measured with tracer-ratio and inverse dispersion modelling techniques
Mei Bai, José I. Velazco, Trevor W. Coates, Frances A. Phillips, Thomas K. Flesch, Julian Hill, David G. Mayer, Nigel W. Tomkins, Roger S. Hegarty, and Deli Chen
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3469–3479, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3469-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3469-2021, 2021
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17 May 2021
Application of the ECT9 protocol for radiocarbon-based source apportionment of carbonaceous aerosols
Lin Huang, Wendy Zhang, Guaciara M. Santos, Blanca T. Rodríguez, Sandra R. Holden, Vincent Vetro, and Claudia I. Czimczik
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3481–3500, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3481-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3481-2021, 2021
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18 May 2021
Eddies in motion: visualizing boundary-layer turbulence above an open boreal peatland using UAS thermal videos
Pavel Alekseychik, Gabriel Katul, Ilkka Korpela, and Samuli Launiainen
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3501–3521, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3501-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3501-2021, 2021
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18 May 2021
Comparison of single-Doppler and multiple-Doppler wind retrievals in Hurricane Matthew (2016)
Ting-Yu Cha and Michael M. Bell
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3523–3539, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3523-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3523-2021, 2021
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18 May 2021
Insights into wind turbine reflectivity and radar cross-section (RCS) and their variability using X-band weather radar observations
Martin Lainer, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Zaira Schauwecker, Marco Gabella, Montserrat F.-Bolaños, Reto Pauli, and Jacopo Grazioli
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3541–3560, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3541-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3541-2021, 2021
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18 May 2021
Uncertainty of hourly-average concentration values derived from non-continuous measurements
László Haszpra and Ernő Prácser
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3561–3571, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3561-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3561-2021, 2021
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19 May 2021
The design and development of a tuneable and portable radiation source for in situ spectrometer characterisation
Marek Šmíd, Geiland Porrovecchio, Jiří Tesař, Tim Burnitt, Luca Egli, Julian Grőbner, Petr Linduška, and Martin Staněk
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3573–3582, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3573-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3573-2021, 2021
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19 May 2021
Resolving the ambiguous direction of arrival of weak meteor radar trail echoes
Daniel Kastinen, Johan Kero, Alexander Kozlovsky, and Mark Lester
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3583–3596, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3583-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3583-2021, 2021
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19 May 2021
In situ observations of stratospheric HCl using three-mirror integrated cavity output spectroscopy
Jordan Wilkerson, David S. Sayres, Jessica B. Smith, Norton Allen, Marco Rivero, Mike Greenberg, Terry Martin, and James G. Anderson
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3597–3613, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3597-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3597-2021, 2021
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20 May 2021
Multifrequency radar observations of clouds and precipitation including the G-band
Katia Lamer, Mariko Oue, Alessandro Battaglia, Richard J. Roy, Ken B. Cooper, Ranvir Dhillon, and Pavlos Kollias
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3615–3629, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3615-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3615-2021, 2021
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20 May 2021
The importance of size ranges in aerosol instrument intercomparisons: a case study for the Atmospheric Tomography Mission
Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Benjamin A. Nault, Douglas A. Day, Jason C. Schroder, Dongwook Kim, Jack E. Dibb, Maximilian Dollner, Bernadett Weinzierl, and Jose L. Jimenez
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3631–3655, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3631-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3631-2021, 2021
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20 May 2021
A field intercomparison of three passive air samplers for gaseous mercury in ambient air
Attilio Naccarato, Antonella Tassone, Maria Martino, Sacha Moretti, Antonella Macagnano, Emiliano Zampetti, Paolo Papa, Joshua Avossa, Nicola Pirrone, Michelle Nerentorp, John Munthe, Ingvar Wängberg, Geoff W. Stupple, Carl P. J. Mitchell, Adam R. Martin, Alexandra Steffen, Diana Babi, Eric M. Prestbo, Francesca Sprovieri, and Frank Wania
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3657–3672, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3657-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3657-2021, 2021
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20 May 2021
Volcanic SO2 effective layer height retrieval for the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) using a machine-learning approach
Nikita M. Fedkin, Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Pascal Hedelt, Diego G. Loyola, Russell R. Dickerson, and Robert Spurr
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3673–3691, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3673-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3673-2021, 2021
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21 May 2021
Estimation of particulate organic nitrates from thermodenuder–aerosol mass spectrometer measurements in the North China Plain
Weiqi Xu, Masayuki Takeuchi, Chun Chen, Yanmei Qiu, Conghui Xie, Wanyun Xu, Nan Ma, Douglas R. Worsnop, Nga Lee Ng, and Yele Sun
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3693–3705, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3693-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3693-2021, 2021
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21 May 2021
Modeled source apportionment of black carbon particles coated with a light-scattering shell
Aki Virkkula
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3707–3719, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3707-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3707-2021, 2021
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21 May 2021
Investigation of structural changes of atmospheric aerosol samples during two thermal–optical measurement procedures (EUSAAR2, NIOSH870)
Theresa Haller, Eva Sommer, Thomas Steinkogler, Christian Rentenberger, Anna Wonaschuetz, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Hinrich Grothe, and Regina Hitzenberger
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3721–3735, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3721-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3721-2021, 2021
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25 May 2021
Spectral calibration of the MethaneAIR instrument
Carly Staebell, Kang Sun, Jenna Samra, Jonathan Franklin, Christopher Chan Miller, Xiong Liu, Eamon Conway, Kelly Chance, Scott Milligan, and Steven Wofsy
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3737–3753, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3737-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3737-2021, 2021
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25 May 2021
A simplified method for the detection of convection using high-resolution imagery from GOES-16
Yoonjin Lee, Christian D. Kummerow, and Milija Zupanski
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3755–3771, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3755-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3755-2021, 2021
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25 May 2021
Evaluation of the new DWD ozone and temperature lidar during the Hohenpeißenberg Ozone Profiling Study (HOPS) and comparison of results with previous NDACC campaigns
Robin Wing, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Thomas J. McGee, John T. Sullivan, Sergey Khaykin, Grant Sumnicht, and Laurence Twigg
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3773–3794, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3773-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3773-2021, 2021
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26 May 2021
Distributed wind measurements with multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles in the atmospheric boundary layer
Tamino Wetz, Norman Wildmann, and Frank Beyrich
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3795–3814, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3795-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3795-2021, 2021
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26 May 2021
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VAHCOLI, a new concept for lidars: technical setup, science applications, and first measurements
Franz-Josef Lübken and Josef Höffner
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3815–3836, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3815-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3815-2021, 2021
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26 May 2021
XCO2 retrieval for GOSAT and GOSAT-2 based on the FOCAL algorithm
Stefan Noël, Maximilian Reuter, Michael Buchwitz, Jakob Borchardt, Michael Hilker, Heinrich Bovensmann, John P. Burrows, Antonio Di Noia, Hiroshi Suto, Yukio Yoshida, Matthias Buschmann, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Dietrich G. Feist, David W. T. Griffith, Frank Hase, Rigel Kivi, Isamu Morino, Justus Notholt, Hirofumi Ohyama, Christof Petri, James R. Podolske, David F. Pollard, Mahesh Kumar Sha, Kei Shiomi, Ralf Sussmann, Yao Té, Voltaire A. Velazco, and Thorsten Warneke
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3837–3869, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3837-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3837-2021, 2021
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26 May 2021
Quantitative comparison of measured and simulated O4 absorptions for one day with extremely low aerosol load over the tropical Atlantic
Thomas Wagner, Steffen Dörner, Steffen Beirle, Sebastian Donner, and Stefan Kinne
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3871–3893, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3871-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3871-2021, 2021
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27 May 2021
Coupling a gas chromatograph simultaneously to a flame ionization detector and chemical ionization mass spectrometer for isomer-resolved measurements of particle-phase organic compounds
Chenyang Bi, Jordan E. Krechmer, Graham O. Frazier, Wen Xu, Andrew T. Lambe, Megan S. Claflin, Brian M. Lerner, John T. Jayne, Douglas R. Worsnop, Manjula R. Canagaratna, and Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3895–3907, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3895-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3895-2021, 2021
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27 May 2021
Retrieval algorithm for the column CO2 mixing ratio from pulsed multi-wavelength lidar measurements
Xiaoli Sun, James B. Abshire, Anand Ramanathan, Stephan R. Kawa, and Jianping Mao
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3909–3922, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3909-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3909-2021, 2021
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27 May 2021
Testing the altitude attribution and vertical resolution of AirCore measurements with a new spiking method
Thomas Wagenhäuser, Andreas Engel, and Robert Sitals
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3923–3934, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3923-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3923-2021, 2021
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27 May 2021
Internal consistency of the IAGOS ozone and carbon monoxide measurements for the last 25 years
Romain Blot, Philippe Nedelec, Damien Boulanger, Pawel Wolff, Bastien Sauvage, Jean-Marc Cousin, Gilles Athier, Andreas Zahn, Florian Obersteiner, Dieter Scharffe, Hervé Petetin, Yasmine Bennouna, Hannah Clark, and Valérie Thouret
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3935–3951, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3935-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3935-2021, 2021
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28 May 2021
Systematic comparison of vectorial spherical radiative transfer models in limb scattering geometry
Daniel Zawada, Ghislain Franssens, Robert Loughman, Antti Mikkonen, Alexei Rozanov, Claudia Emde, Adam Bourassa, Seth Dueck, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Didier Ramon, Vladimir Rozanov, Emmanuel Dekemper, Erkki Kyrölä, John P. Burrows, Didier Fussen, and Doug Degenstein
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3953–3972, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3953-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3953-2021, 2021
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31 May 2021
Error analyses of a multistatic meteor radar system to obtain a three-dimensional spatial-resolution distribution
Wei Zhong, Xianghui Xue, Wen Yi, Iain M. Reid, Tingdi Chen, and Xiankang Dou
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3973–3988, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3973-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3973-2021, 2021
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