Technical note: Fu–Liou–Gu and Corti–Peter model performance evaluation for radiative retrievals from cirrus clouds

Lolli, Simone; Campbell, James R.; Lewis, Jasper R.; Gu, Yu; Welton, Ellsworth J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7025-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7025-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7025-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

Technical note

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14 Jun 2017

Technical note |

| 14 Jun 2017

Technical note: Fu–Liou–Gu and Corti–Peter model performance evaluation for radiative retrievals from cirrus clouds

Simone Lolli, James R. Campbell, Jasper R. Lewis, Yu Gu, and Ellsworth J. Welton

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Jun 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 Dec 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'error estimation and validation', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Interactive comment on "Technical note: Fu-Liou-Gu and Corti-Peter model performance evaluation for radiative retrievals from cirrus clouds"', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jan 2017
AC1: 'Answers to the reviewers', Simone Lolli, 04 Mar 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (04 Mar 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Mar 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Mar 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Mar 2017)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 Apr 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased)

AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (03 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 May 2017)

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (12 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased)

AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 May 2017) by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased)

AR by Simone Lolli on behalf of the Authors (17 May 2017)

Short summary

We compare net TOA radiative forcing between the simplified Corti–Peter (CP) and relatively complex Fu–Liou–Gu models for cirrus clouds observed by NASA MPLNET at Singapore in 2010–11 and Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2012. We find daytime forcing discrepancies up to 65 % between the two, which is greater than previous studies. In some cases, the sign of net TOA daytime forcing also differs. We attribute model differences to numerical simplifications in CP via regression that are not valid globally.