Articles | Volume 20, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11275-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11275-2020
Research article
 | 
02 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 02 Oct 2020

Daytime aerosol optical depth above low-level clouds is similar to that in adjacent clear skies at the same heights: airborne observation above the southeast Atlantic

Yohei Shinozuka, Meloë S. Kacenelenbogen, Sharon P. Burton, Steven G. Howell, Paquita Zuidema, Richard A. Ferrare, Samuel E. LeBlanc, Kristina Pistone, Stephen Broccardo, Jens Redemann, K. Sebastian Schmidt, Sabrina P. Cochrane, Marta Fenn, Steffen Freitag, Amie Dobracki, Michal Segal-Rosenheimer, and Connor J. Flynn

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Yohei Shinozuka on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2020)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Jun 2020) by Paola Formenti
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (08 Jul 2020)
RR by Eric Wilcox (16 Jul 2020)
ED: Publish as is (17 Jul 2020) by Paola Formenti
AR by Yohei Shinozuka on behalf of the Authors (24 Jul 2020)  Manuscript 
Download
Short summary
To help satellite retrieval of aerosols and studies of their radiative effects, we demonstrate that daytime aerosol optical depth over low-level clouds is similar to that in neighboring clear skies at the same heights. Based on recent airborne lidar and sun photometer observations above the southeast Atlantic, the mean AOD difference at 532 nm is between 0 and -0.01, when comparing the cloudy and clear sides of cloud edges, with each up to 20 km wide.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint