Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager

Ewald, Florian; Kölling, Tobias; Baumgartner, Andreas; Zinner, Tobias; Mayer, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

Research article

|

04 May 2016

Research article |

| 04 May 2016

Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager

Florian Ewald, Tobias Kölling, Andreas Baumgartner, Tobias Zinner, and Bernhard Mayer

Download

Final revised paper (published on 04 May 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 22 Sep 2015)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC C3323: 'Review of "Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager" by Ewald et al.'', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Oct 2015
- AC C4606: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Florian Ewald, 05 Jan 2016
RC C3459: 'Referee Comments on "Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager"', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Oct 2015
- AC C4642: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Florian Ewald, 05 Jan 2016

Short summary

The new spectrometer of the Munich Aerosol Cloud Scanner (specMACS) is a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager which is designated, but not limited, to investigations of cloud-aerosol interactions in Earth's atmosphere. This paper describes the specMACS instrument's hardware and software design and characterizes the instrument performance. Initial measurements of cloud sides are presented which demonstrate the wide applicability of the instrument.