A new classification of satellite-derived liquid water cloud regimes at cloud scale

Unglaub, Claudia; Block, Karoline; Mülmenstädt, Johannes; Sourdeval, Odran; Quaas, Johannes

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2407-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2407-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2407-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 4

Research article

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28 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 28 Feb 2020

A new classification of satellite-derived liquid water cloud regimes at cloud scale

Claudia Unglaub, Karoline Block, Johannes Mülmenstädt, Odran Sourdeval, and Johannes Quaas

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RC1: 'Review of "A new classification of satellite derived liquid water cloud regimes at cloud scale" by C. Unglaub et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to review comments', Johannes Quaas, 17 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review of "A new classification of satellite derived liquid water cloud regimes at cloud scale"', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to review comments', Johannes Quaas, 17 Jan 2020

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AR by Johannes Quaas on behalf of the Authors (04 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Feb 2020) by Armin Sorooshian

AR by Johannes Quaas on behalf of the Authors (05 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In cloud research, it is necessary to classify clouds. The World Meteorological Organization proposes distinguishing stratiform and cumuliform clouds in three altitude layers. The paper explains why previous approaches to classify clouds fail for many applications and proposes a new classification on the basis of new approaches for satellite retrievals to derive cloud-base height, in combination with cloud inhomogeneity. It is demonstrated that this discriminates cloud characteristics well.