The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°&thinsp;S and 51°&thinsp;N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station

Noel, Vincent; Chepfer, Hélène; Chiriaco, Marjolaine; Yorks, John

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

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06 Jul 2018

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The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51° S and 51° N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station

Vincent Noel, Hélène Chepfer, Marjolaine Chiriaco, and John Yorks

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Apr 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'regarding the use of ground-based data for the validation of CATS cloud detections', Vincent Noel, 15 May 2018
SC1: 'Cloud frequency vs. cloud fraction', David Duncan, 16 Apr 2018
RC3: 'review: “The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51S and 51N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station” by Vincent Noel et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 21 Apr 2018

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AR by Vincent Noel on behalf of the Authors (19 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 Jun 2018) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Vincent Noel on behalf of the Authors (22 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

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From 3 years of observations from the CATS lidar on the International Space Station we document the daily cycle of the vertical distribution of clouds. This is the first time this is documented over several continents and oceans using finely resolved measurements on a near-global scale from a single instrument. We show that other instruments observing clouds from space, like CALIPSO, document extremes of the daily cycle over ocean and closer to the average over land.