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JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 8, Pages 1783-1803Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0194.1
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Cloud cover; Cloud radiative effects; Cloud water; phase; Clouds
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- NASA Grant [NNX13AQ34G]
- CSIRO Marine National Facility (MNF)
- NASA [NNX13AQ34G, 464871] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The properties of clouds derived using a suite of remote sensors on board the Australian research vessel (R/V) Investigator during the 5-week Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, Radiation, and Atmospheric Composition over the Southern Ocean (CAPRICORN) voyage south of Australia during March and April 2016 are examined and compared to similar measurements collected by CloudSat and CALIPSO (CC) and from data collected at Graciosa Island, Azores (GRW). In addition, we use depolarization lidar data to examine the thermodynamic phase partitioning as a function of temperature and compare those statistics to similar information reported from the CALIPSO lidar in low-Earth orbit. We find that cloud cover during CAPRICORN was 76%, dominated by clouds based in the marine boundary layer. This was lower than comparable measurements collected by CC during these months, although the CC dataset observed significantly more high clouds. In the surface-based data, approximately 2/3 (1/2) of all low-level layers observed had a reflectivity below -20 dBZ in the CAPRICORN data (GRW) with 30% (20%) of the layers observed only by the lidar. The phase partitioning in layers based in the lower 4 km of the atmosphere was similar in the two surface-based datasets, indicating a greater occurrence of the ice phase in subfreezing low clouds than what is reported from analysis of CALIPSO data.
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