Raman lidar-derived optical and microphysical properties of ice crystals within thin Arctic clouds during PARCS campaign

Chazette, Patrick; Raut, Jean-Christophe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5847-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5847-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5847-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 23

Research article

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07 Dec 2023

Research article |

| 07 Dec 2023

Raman lidar-derived optical and microphysical properties of ice crystals within thin Arctic clouds during PARCS campaign

Patrick Chazette and Jean-Christophe Raut

Data sets

PARCS, WALI lidar Jean-Christophe Raut and Patrick Chazette https://www4.obs-mip.fr/parcs/

Short summary

The vertical profiles of the effective radii of ice crystals and ice water content in Arctic semi-transparent stratiform clouds were assessed using quantitative ground-based lidar measurements. The field campaign was part of the Pollution in the ARCtic System (PARCS) project which took place from 13 to 26 May 2016 in Hammerfest (70° 39′ 48″ N, 23° 41′ 00″ E). We show that under certain cloud conditions, lidar measurement combined with a dedicated algorithmic approach is an efficient tool.