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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3863-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3863-2024
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01 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 01 Jul 2024

Lidar–radar synergistic method to retrieve ice, supercooled water and mixed-phase cloud properties

Clémantyne Aubry, Julien Delanoë, Silke Groß, Florian Ewald, Frédéric Tridon, Olivier Jourdan, and Guillaume Mioche

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Radar–lidar synergy is used to retrieve ice, supercooled water and mixed-phase cloud properties, making the most of the radar sensitivity to ice crystals and the lidar sensitivity to supercooled droplets. A first analysis of the output of the algorithm run on the satellite data is compared with in situ data during an airborne Arctic field campaign, giving a mean percent error of 49 % for liquid water content and 75 % for ice water content.
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