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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 111, 期 D5, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005648
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During May 2003 the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program conducted an Intensive Operations Period (IOP) to measure the radiative effects of aerosol and clouds. A suite of both in situ and remote sensing measurements were available to measure aerosol and cloud parameters. This paper has three main goals: First, it focuses on comparison between in situ retrievals of the radiatively important drop effective radius r(e) and various satellite, airborne, and surface remote sensing retrievals of the same parameter. On 17 May 2003, there was a fortuitous, near-simultaneous sampling of a stratus cloud by five different methods. The retrievals of r(e) agree with one another to within similar to 20%, which is approximately the error estimate for most methods. Second, a methodology for deriving a best estimate of r(e) from these different instruments, with their different physical properties and sampling volumes, is proposed and applied to the 17 May event. Third, the paper examines the response of r(e) to changes in aerosol on 3 days during the experiment and examines the consistency of remote sensing and in situ measurements of the effect of aerosol on r(e). It is shown that in spite of the generally good agreement in derived r(e), the magnitude of the response of r(e) to changes in aerosol is quite sensitive to the method of retrieving r(e) and to the aerosol proxy for cloud condensation nuclei. Nonphysical responses are sometimes noted, and it is suggested that further work needs to be done to refine these techniques.
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