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Research article
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22 Jun 2016
Research article |
| 22 Jun 2016
Climatological and radiative properties of midlatitude cirrus clouds derived by automatic evaluation of lidar measurements
Erika Kienast-Sjögren
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
now at: Fed. Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Zurich Airport, Operation Center 1, 8058 Zurich, Switzerland
Christian Rolf
Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Stratosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Patric Seifert
Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
Ulrich K. Krieger
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bei P. Luo
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos, PMOD WRC, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
Martina Krämer
Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Stratosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Thomas Peter
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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We present a climatology of mid-latitude cirrus cloud properties based on 13 000 hours of automatically analyzed lidar measurements at three different sites. Jungfraujoch,
situated at 3580 m a.s.l., is found to be ideal to measure high and optically thin
cirrus. We use our retrieved optical properties together with a radiation model and
estimate the radiative forcing by mid-latitude cirrus.
All cirrus clouds detected here have a positive net radiative effect.
We present a climatology of mid-latitude cirrus cloud properties based on 13 000 hours of...
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