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Research article
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27 Jan 2015
Research article |
| 27 Jan 2015
Distinguishing cirrus cloud presence in autonomous lidar measurements
J. R. Campbell
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California, USA
M. A. Vaughan
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
M. Oo
Space Sciences and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
R. E. Holz
Space Sciences and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
J. R. Lewis
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
E. J. Welton
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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Short summary
Digital thresholds based on 2012 CALIOP satellite lidar measurements are investigated for distinguishing cirrus cloud presence, including cloud top temperatures and heights combined with layer depolarization and phase and optical depths. A cloud top temperature of -37 C is found to exhibit the most stable performance, owing to it being the point of homogeneous liquid-water freezing. Depolarization and phase help but are mostly ambiguous at warmer temperatures where mixed-phase clouds propagate.
Digital thresholds based on 2012 CALIOP satellite lidar measurements are investigated for...
