Marine boundary layer drizzle properties and their impact on cloud property retrieval

Wu, P.; Dong, X.; Xi, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3555-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3555-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3555-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

Research article

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03 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2015

Marine boundary layer drizzle properties and their impact on cloud property retrieval

P. Wu, X. Dong, and B. Xi

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Sep 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 29 Apr 2015)

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RC C1225: 'Wu et al. “MBL drizzle properties and their impact on cloud property retrievals”', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 May 2015
AC C1486: 'response to RC', Xiquan Dong, 10 Jun 2015
RC C2272: 'Review for AMT-2015-64', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Jul 2015

Short summary

How does drizzle underneath marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds affect cloud property retrievals? How much liquid water is depleted by virga and rain? To our knowledge, no previous studies have quantitatively estimated the impact of drizzle on cloud property retrievals. Cloud parameterization and radiative transfer modeling researchers will be interested since we give quantitative estimations of drizzle and cloud effective radius, no. concentration, liquid water content, and optical thickness.