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A microphysics guide to cirrus - Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations
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2020
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Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12569–12608, 2020
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Journal Title:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Description:This study presents airborne in situ and satellite remote sensing climatologies of cirrus clouds and humidity. The climatologies serve as a guide to the properties of cirrus clouds, with the new in situ database providing detailed insights into boreal midlatitudes and the tropics, while the satellite-borne data set offers a global overview. To this end, an extensive, quality-checked data archive, the Cirrus Guide II in situ database, is created from airborne in situ measurements during 150 flights in 24 campaigns. The archive contains meteorological parameters, ice water content (IWC), ice crystal number concentration (Nice), ice crystal mean mass radius (Rice), relative humidity with respect to ice (RHice), and water vapor mixing ratio (H2O) for each of the flights. Depending on the parameter, the database has been extended by about a factor of 5–10 compared to earlier studies.
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Source:Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12569–12608, 2020
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