Articles | Volume 17, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5765-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5765-2024
Research article
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02 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 02 Oct 2024

Supercooled liquid water cloud classification using lidar backscatter peak properties

Luke Edgar Whitehead, Adrian James McDonald, and Adrien Guyot

Data sets

MiniMPL data for 'Supercooled liquid water cloud classification using lidar backscatter peak properties' L. E. Whitehead and A. McDonald https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13331220

Model code and software

mpl2nc P. Kuma https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4409731

Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer Framework (ALCF) P. Kuma et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5153867

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Short summary
Supercooled liquid water cloud is important to represent in weather and climate models, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. Previous work has developed a new machine learning method for measuring supercooled liquid water in Antarctic clouds using simple lidar observations. We evaluate this technique using a lidar dataset from Christchurch, New Zealand, and develop an updated algorithm for accurate supercooled liquid water detection at mid-latitudes.