A new description of probability density distributions of polar mesospheric clouds

Berger, Uwe; Baumgarten, Gerd; Fiedler, Jens; Lübken, Franz-Josef

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4685-2019

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A new description of probability density distributions of polar mesospheric clouds

Uwe Berger, Gerd Baumgarten, Jens Fiedler, and Franz-Josef Lübken

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RC1: 'Review of Paper acp-2018-642 by U. Berger et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'AC1 (acp-2018-642)', Uwe Berger, 08 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review of Berger et al. (2018)', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'AC2 (acp-2018-642)', Uwe Berger, 08 Nov 2018

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In this paper we present a new description of statistical probability density functions (pdfs) of polar mesospheric clouds (PMC). We derive a new class of pdfs that describes successfully the probability statistic of ALOMAR lidar observations of different ice parameters. As a main advantage the new method allows us to connect different observational PMC distributions of lidar and satellite data, and also to compare with distributions from ice model studies.