Ground-based imaging remote sensing of ice clouds: uncertainties caused by sensor, method and atmosphere

Zinner, Tobias; Hausmann, Petra; Ewald, Florian; Bugliaro, Luca; Emde, Claudia; Mayer, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

Research article

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20 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 20 Sep 2016

Ground-based imaging remote sensing of ice clouds: uncertainties caused by sensor, method and atmosphere

Tobias Zinner, Petra Hausmann, Florian Ewald, Luca Bugliaro, Claudia Emde, and Bernhard Mayer

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RC1: 'Review of "Ground-based passive remote sensing of thin ice clouds: challenges caused by sensor, method and atmosphere" by Zinner et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 May 2016
- AC1: 'Author response to referee 2', Tobias Zinner, 08 Aug 2016
RC2: 'Interactive comments on “Ground-based passive remote sensing of thin ice clouds: challenges caused by sensor, method and atmosphere” by Tobias Zinner et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 May 2016
- AC2: 'Author response to referee 1', Tobias Zinner, 08 Aug 2016
RC3: 'Review of AMT-2016-123 with comments on optical thickness ambiguity', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 May 2016
- AC3: 'Author response to referee 3', Tobias Zinner, 08 Aug 2016

Short summary

A new retrieval of optical thickness and effective particle size of ice clouds over a wide range of optical thickness from transmittance measurements is presented. A visible range spectral slope is used to resolve the transmittance optical thickness ambiguity. Retrieval sensitivity to ice crystal habit, aerosol, albedo, sensor accuracy and lookup table interpolation is presented as well as an application of the method and comparison to satellite products for 2 days.