Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7025-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7025-2017
Technical note
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14 Jun 2017
Technical note |  | 14 Jun 2017

Technical note: Fu–Liou–Gu and Corti–Peter model performance evaluation for radiative retrievals from cirrus clouds

Simone Lolli, James R. Campbell, Jasper R. Lewis, Yu Gu, and Ellsworth J. Welton

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AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (04 Mar 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Mar 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Mar 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Mar 2017)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 Apr 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann
AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (03 May 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 May 2017)
ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (12 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann
AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (16 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann
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We compare net TOA radiative forcing between the simplified Corti–Peter (CP) and relatively complex Fu–Liou–Gu models for cirrus clouds observed by NASA MPLNET at Singapore in 2010–11 and Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2012. We find daytime forcing discrepancies up to 65 % between the two, which is greater than previous studies. In some cases, the sign of net TOA daytime forcing also differs. We attribute model differences to numerical simplifications in CP via regression that are not valid globally.
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