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Laboratory and in-flight evaluation of measurement uncertainties from a commercial Cloud Droplet Probe (CDP)

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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
卷 11, 期 6, 页码 3645-3659

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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-3645-2018

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  1. National Science Foundation grant [AGS-1441831]

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Laboratory and in-flight evaluations of uncertainties of measurements from a Cloud Droplet Probe (CDP) are presented. A description of a water-droplet-generating device, similar to those used in previous studies, is provided along with validation of droplet sizing and positioning. Seven experiments with droplet diameters of 9, 17, 24, 29, 34, 38, and 46 mu m tested sizing and counting performance across a 10 mu m resolution grid throughout the sample area of a CDP. Results indicate errors in sizing that depend on both droplet diameter and position within the sample area through which a droplet transited. The CDP undersized 9 mu m droplets by 1-4 mu m. Droplets with diameters of 17 and 24 mu m were sized to within 2 mu m, which is the nominal CDP bin width for droplets of that size. The majority of droplets larger than 17 mu m were oversized by 2-4 mu m, while a small percentage were severely undersized, by as much as 30 mu m. This combination led to an artificial broadening and skewing of the spectra such that mean diameters from a near-monodisperse distribution compared well (within a few percent), while the median diameters were oversized by 5-15 %. This has implications on how users should calibrate their probes. Errors in higher-order moments were generally less than 10 %. Comparisons of liquid water content (LWC) calculated from the CDP and that measured from a Nevzorov hot-wire probe were conducted for 17917 1 Hz in-cloud points. Although some differences were noted based on volume-weighted mean diameter and total droplet concentration, the CDP-estimated LWC exceeded that measured by the Nevzorov by approximately 20 %, more than twice the expected difference based on results of the laboratory tests and considerations of Nevzorov collection efficiency.

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