Absorption of aerosols above clouds from POLDER/PARASOL measurements and estimation of their direct radiative effect

Peers, F.; Waquet, F.; Cornet, C.; Dubuisson, P.; Ducos, F.; Goloub, P.; Szczap, F.; Tanré, D.; Thieuleux, F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4179-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4179-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4179-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

Research article

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22 Apr 2015

Research article |

| 22 Apr 2015

Absorption of aerosols above clouds from POLDER/PARASOL measurements and estimation of their direct radiative effect

F. Peers, F. Waquet, C. Cornet, P. Dubuisson, F. Ducos, P. Goloub, F. Szczap, D. Tanré, and F. Thieuleux

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RC C8810: 'Review comments for acp-2014-628', Hiren Jethva, 05 Nov 2014
- AC C12364: 'Authors' reply to Dr Hiren Jethva', Fanny Peers, 23 Feb 2015
RC C11138: 'Review of Absorption of aerosols from POLDER/PARASOL measurements and DRE estimation by F. Peers et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Jan 2015
- AC C12365: 'Authors' reply to referee #3', Fanny Peers, 23 Feb 2015

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AR by Fanny Peers on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Feb 2015) by Paola Formenti

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (09 Mar 2015)

RR by Hiren Jethva (12 Mar 2015)

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (20 Mar 2015) by Paola Formenti

AR by Fanny Peers on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (30 Mar 2015) by Paola Formenti

AR by Fanny Peers on behalf of the Authors (30 Mar 2015)

Short summary

This study presents an original method to evaluate the aerosol optical thickness, the single scattering albedo and the cloud optical thickness for aerosol above cloud scenes. It is based on multi-angle total and polarized radiances both provided by the A-train satellite instrument POLDER/PARASOL. This algorithm has been applied together with a radiative transfer code over the South East Atlantic Ocean. The mean direct radiative effect for August and September 2006 is found to be 33.5W.m−2.