Estimating precipitation susceptibility in warm marine clouds using multi-sensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites

Bai, Heming; Gong, Cheng; Wang, Minghuai; Zhang, Zhibo; L'Ecuyer, Tristan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1763-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1763-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1763-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 3

Research article

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07 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 07 Feb 2018

Estimating precipitation susceptibility in warm marine clouds using multi-sensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites

Heming Bai, Cheng Gong, Minghuai Wang, Zhibo Zhang, and Tristan L'Ecuyer

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Final revised paper (published on 07 Feb 2018)
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RC1: 'Review comments', Johannes Quaas, 07 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'reply', Minghuai Wang, 09 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Review of Bai et al. “Estimating precipitation susceptibility in warm marine clouds using multi-sensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites”', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'reply', Minghuai Wang, 09 Dec 2017

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

AR by Minghuai Wang on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Jan 2018) by Michael Schulz

AR by Minghuai Wang on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Precipitation susceptibility to aerosol perturbation plays a key role in understanding aerosol–cloud interactions and for constraining aerosol indirect effects. Here, multisensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites are analyzed to estimate precipitation susceptibility. Compared to precipitation intensity susceptibility, precipitation frequency susceptibility demonstrates relatively robust features across different retrieval products.