Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed phase, investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations

Listowski, Constantino; Delanoë, Julien; Kirchgaessner, Amélie; Lachlan-Cope, Tom; King, John

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

Research article

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21 May 2019

Research article |

| 21 May 2019

Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed phase, investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations

Constantino Listowski, Julien Delanoë, Amélie Kirchgaessner, Tom Lachlan-Cope, and John King

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Answer to RC1', Constantino Listowski, 13 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed-phase investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to RC2', Constantino Listowski, 13 Mar 2019

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AR by Constantino Listowski on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Mar 2019) by Michael Pitts

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Apr 2019)

ED: Publish as is (18 Apr 2019) by Michael Pitts

Short summary

Using satellite cloud products we investigate the supercooled liquid-water (SLW) distribution Antarctic-wide for the first time. We demonstrate differences between the monthly evolution of the marine low-level mixed-phase clouds and that of the marine low-level pure SLW clouds. In addition to the temperature and sea ice fraction as factors explaining the low-level liquid-cloud seasonal cycle, ice nuclei emissions from open water may also be driving the mixed-phase cloud monthly evolution.