Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-933-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-933-2016
Research article
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26 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 26 Jan 2016

Investigation of the adiabatic assumption for estimating cloud micro- and macrophysical properties from satellite and ground observations

D. Merk, H. Deneke, B. Pospichal, and P. Seifert

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AR by Daniel Merk on behalf of the Authors (29 May 2015)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Jun 2015) by Graham Feingold
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (11 Jun 2015)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (22 Jun 2015) by Graham Feingold
AR by Daniel Merk on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2015)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Dec 2015) by Graham Feingold
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A 2-year data set is analyzed to evaluate the consistency and limitations of current ground-based and satellite-retrieved cloud property data sets. We demonstrate that neither the assumption of a completely adiabatic cloud nor the assumption of a constant sub-adiabatic factor is fulfilled. As cloud adiabaticity is required to estimate the cloud droplet number concentration, but is not available from passive satellite observations, we need an independent method to estimate the adiabatic factor.
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