Intercomparison of airborne and surface-based measurements during the CLARIFY, ORACLES and LASIC field experiments

Barrett, Paul A.; Abel, Steven J.; Coe, Hugh; Crawford, Ian; Dobracki, Amie; Haywood, James; Howell, Steve; Jones, Anthony; Langridge, Justin; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Nott, Graeme J.; Price, Hannah; Redemann, Jens; Shinozuka, Yohei; Szpek, Kate; Taylor, Jonathan W.; Wood, Robert; Wu, Huihui; Zuidema, Paquita; Bauguitte, Stéphane; Bennett, Ryan; Bower, Keith; Chen, Hong; Cochrane, Sabrina; Cotterell, Michael; Davies, Nicholas; Delene, David; Flynn, Connor; Freedman, Andrew; Freitag, Steffen; Gupta, Siddhant; Noone, David; Onasch, Timothy B.; Podolske, James; Poellot, Michael R.; Schmidt, Sebastian; Springston, Stephen; Sedlacek III, Arthur J.; Trembath, Jamie; Vance, Alan; Zawadowicz, Maria A.; Zhang, Jianhao

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6329-2022

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Intercomparison of airborne and surface-based measurements during the CLARIFY, ORACLES and LASIC field experiments

Paul A. Barrett, Steven J. Abel, Hugh Coe, Ian Crawford, Amie Dobracki, James Haywood, Steve Howell, Anthony Jones, Justin Langridge, Greg M. McFarquhar, Graeme J. Nott, Hannah Price, Jens Redemann, Yohei Shinozuka, Kate Szpek, Jonathan W. Taylor, Robert Wood, Huihui Wu, Paquita Zuidema, Stéphane Bauguitte, Ryan Bennett, Keith Bower, Hong Chen, Sabrina Cochrane, Michael Cotterell, Nicholas Davies, David Delene, Connor Flynn, Andrew Freedman, Steffen Freitag, Siddhant Gupta, David Noone, Timothy B. Onasch, James Podolske, Michael R. Poellot, Sebastian Schmidt, Stephen Springston, Arthur J. Sedlacek III, Jamie Trembath, Alan Vance, Maria A. Zawadowicz, and Jianhao Zhang

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Data sets

AOS: Carbon Monoxide Analyzer S. Springston https://doi.org/10.5439/1046183

Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor, corrected for composition-dependent collection efficiency, c2 M. Zawadowicz and J. Howie https://doi.org/10.5439/1763029

Single scattering albedo monitor for airborne particulates (https://adc.arm.gov/discovery/#/results/s::caps-ssa) T. Onasch, P. Massoli, P. Kebabian, F. Hills, F. Bacon, and A. Freedman https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2015.1022248

Layered Atlantic smoke interactions with clouds (LASIC) P. Zuidema, M. Alvarado, J. Haywood, D. Romps, J.-Y. C. Chiu, P. Kollias, D. Tuner, S. de Szoeke, E. Lewis, H. Wang, C. Fairall, A. McComiskey, R. Wood, G. Feingold, D. Mechem, S. Yuter, S. Ghan, J. Redeman, and P. Zhu https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2016lasic

FAAM C031 CLARIFY flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core instrument suite on board the BAe-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements, Natural Environment Research Council, and Met Office https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a070273597ab45619bbc4241d722bf61

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2017, Version 3 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2017_V3

Model code and software

FAAM DECADES post processing package D. Sproson, D. Tiddenman, and A. Wellpot https://github.com/ncasuk/decades-pp

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To better understand weather and climate, it is vital to go into the field and collect observations. Often measurements take place in isolation, but here we compared data from two aircraft and one ground-based site. This was done in order to understand how well measurements made on one platform compared to those made on another. Whilst this is easy to do in a controlled laboratory setting, it is more challenging in the real world, and so these comparisons are as valuable as they are rare.