Classification of Arctic multilayer clouds using radiosonde and radar data in Svalbard

Vassel, Maiken; Ickes, Luisa; Maturilli, Marion; Hoose, Corinna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5111-2019

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16 Apr 2019

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| 16 Apr 2019

Classification of Arctic multilayer clouds using radiosonde and radar data in Svalbard

Maiken Vassel, Luisa Ickes, Marion Maturilli, and Corinna Hoose

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

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RC1: 'Anonymous Review of amt-2017-774', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Maiken Vassel, 27 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of app-2018-774', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Maiken Vassel, 27 Dec 2018

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AR by Maiken Vassel on behalf of the Authors (10 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Jan 2019) by Martina Krämer

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Jan 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (04 Feb 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Feb 2019) by Martina Krämer

AR by Maiken Vassel on behalf of the Authors (18 Feb 2019)

ED: Publish as is (07 Mar 2019) by Martina Krämer

AR by Maiken Vassel on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2019)

Short summary

Multilayer clouds are coexisting clouds at different heights. We evaluate measurements and find that Arctic multilayer clouds occur in 29 % of the investigated days at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Multilayer clouds can interact by ice crystals falling from the upper cloud into the lower cloud. This is possible in 23 % of the investigated days, and in 9 % it is not possible. Weather models are still error-prone in the Arctic and we suggest that multilayer clouds should be included more in future work.