Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed phase, investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations

Listowski, Constantino; Delanoë, Julien; Kirchgaessner, Amélie; Lachlan-Cope, Tom; King, John

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6771-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

Research article

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21 May 2019

Research article |

| 21 May 2019

Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed phase, investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations

Constantino Listowski, Julien Delanoë, Amélie Kirchgaessner, Tom Lachlan-Cope, and John King

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

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Answer to RC1', Constantino Listowski, 13 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed-phase investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to RC2', Constantino Listowski, 13 Mar 2019

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AR by Constantino Listowski on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Mar 2019) by Michael Pitts

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Apr 2019)

ED: Publish as is (18 Apr 2019) by Michael Pitts

AR by Constantino Listowski on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Using satellite cloud products we investigate the supercooled liquid-water (SLW) distribution Antarctic-wide for the first time. We demonstrate differences between the monthly evolution of the marine low-level mixed-phase clouds and that of the marine low-level pure SLW clouds. In addition to the temperature and sea ice fraction as factors explaining the low-level liquid-cloud seasonal cycle, ice nuclei emissions from open water may also be driving the mixed-phase cloud monthly evolution.