Comparison of Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud observations by ground-based and space-borne lidar and relevance for chemistry–climate models

Snels, Marcel; Scoccione, Andrea; Di Liberto, Luca; Colao, Francesco; Pitts, Michael; Poole, Lamont; Deshler, Terry; Cairo, Francesco; Cagnazzo, Chiara; Fierli, Federico

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-955-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-955-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-955-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Research article

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24 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 24 Jan 2019

Comparison of Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud observations by ground-based and space-borne lidar and relevance for chemistry–climate models

Marcel Snels, Andrea Scoccione, Luca Di Liberto, Francesco Colao, Michael Pitts, Lamont Poole, Terry Deshler, Francesco Cairo, Chiara Cagnazzo, and Federico Fierli

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RC1: 'A review of Snels et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Answers to referee 1', Marcel Snels, 27 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Correction to RC1: 'A review of Snels et al.'', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Sep 2018
- AC3: 'Answers to referee 1', Marcel Snels, 28 Nov 2018
RC3: 'Referee Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Answers to referee 2', Marcel Snels, 27 Nov 2018

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

AR by Marcel Snels on behalf of the Authors (06 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Dec 2018) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Dec 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Jan 2019) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

AR by Marcel Snels on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2019) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

AR by Marcel Snels on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Polar stratospheric clouds are important for stratospheric chemistry and ozone depletion. Here we statistically compare ground-based and satellite-borne lidar measurements at McMurdo (Antarctica) in order to better understand the differences between ground-based and satellite-borne observations. The satellite observations have also been compared to models used in CCMVAL-2 and CCMI studies, with the goal of testing different diagnostic methods for comparing observations with model outputs.