Calibration of a water vapour Raman lidar using GRUAN-certified radiosondes and a new trajectory method

Hicks-Jalali, Shannon; Sica, Robert J.; Haefele, Alexander; Martucci, Giovanni

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3699-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3699-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3699-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

Research article

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09 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 09 Jul 2019

Calibration of a water vapour Raman lidar using GRUAN-certified radiosondes and a new trajectory method

Shannon Hicks-Jalali, Robert J. Sica, Alexander Haefele, and Giovanni Martucci

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Final revised paper (published on 09 Jul 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Oct 2018)

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

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RC1: 'Review of "Calibration of a Water Vapour Lidar using a Radiosonde Trajectory Method" by S. Hicks-Jalali et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 1', Robert Sica, 17 Apr 2019
SC1: 'short comments', Dietrich Althausen, 24 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Dietrich Althausen', Robert Sica, 07 Dec 2018
  - SC2: 'Reply to second comment of authors', Dietrich Althausen, 16 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review', David Whiteman, 29 Jan 2019
- AC3: 'Response to David Whiteman', Robert Sica, 17 Apr 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Robert Sica on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Apr 2019) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

RR by David Whiteman (23 May 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (27 May 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 May 2019) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

AR by Robert Sica on behalf of the Authors (03 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Jun 2019) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

Short summary

Water vapour trend calculations with lidars require rigorous calibrations. Here, we improve water vapour lidar calibrations using GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) radiosondes and a new trajectory method. The trajectory method improved the lidar calibration and more consistently agreed with the radiosonde measurement compared to the traditional method. Using GRUAN radiosondes enabled the calculation, for the first time, of a complete uncertainty budget of the calibration constant.