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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3875-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3875-2022
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Research article
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01 Jul 2022
Research article |
| 01 Jul 2022
| 01 Jul 2022
The impact of sampling strategy on the cloud droplet number concentration estimated from satellite data
Edward Gryspeerdt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London, London, UK
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK
Daniel T. McCoy
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Ewan Crosbie
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
Richard H. Moore
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Graeme J. Nott
FAAM, Cranfield, UK
David Painemal
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
Jennifer Small-Griswold
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Armin Sorooshian
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Luke Ziemba
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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Short summary
Droplet number concentration is a key property of clouds, influencing a variety of cloud processes. It is also used for estimating the cloud response to aerosols. The satellite retrieval depends on a number of assumptions – different sampling strategies are used to select cases where these assumptions are most likely to hold. Here we investigate the impact of these strategies on the agreement with in situ data, the droplet number climatology and estimates of the indirect radiative forcing.
Droplet number concentration is a key property of clouds, influencing a variety of cloud...
