Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3845-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3845-2017
Research article
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21 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 21 Mar 2017

Upper tropospheric cloud systems derived from IR sounders: properties of cirrus anvils in the tropics

Sofia E. Protopapadaki, Claudia J. Stubenrauch, and Artem G. Feofilov

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AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2017)  Author's response
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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 Jan 2017)
ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (31 Jan 2017) by Graham Feingold
AR by Sofia Protopapadaki on behalf of the Authors (10 Feb 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (10 Feb 2017) by Graham Feingold
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Upper tropospheric clouds cover about 30 % of the Earth and play a key role in the climate system by modulating the Earth's energy budget and heat transport. In this article, we study upper tropospheric cloud systems using cloud properties deduced from infrared sounders. Our analyses show that the size of the systems as well as the fraction of thin cirrus over the total anvil area increases with increasing convective depth.
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