A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations

Krämer, Martina; Rolf, Christian; Spelten, Nicole; Afchine, Armin; Fahey, David; Jensen, Eric; Khaykin, Sergey; Kuhn, Thomas; Lawson, Paul; Lykov, Alexey; Pan, Laura L.; Riese, Martin; Rollins, Andrew; Stroh, Fred; Thornberry, Troy; Wolf, Veronika; Woods, Sarah; Spichtinger, Peter; Quaas, Johannes; Sourdeval, Odran

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12569-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12569–12608, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12569-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12569–12608, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12569-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

Research article 02 Nov 2020

Research article | 02 Nov 2020

A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations

Martina Krämer et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12569-2020-supplement

Data sets

The Cirrus Guide II In-situ Aircraft Data Set M. Krämer, C. Rolf, and N. Spelten, N. https://doi.org/10.34730/266ca2a41f4946ff97d874bfa458254c

Ice crystal number concentration from satellite lidar-radar observations (DARDARNice) O. Sourdeval, E. Gryspeerdt, M. Krämer, T. Goren, J. Delanoë, A. Afchine, F. Hemmer, and J. Quaas https://doi.org/10.25326/09

Short summary

To improve the representations of cirrus clouds in climate predictions, extended knowledge of their properties and geographical distribution is required. This study presents extensive airborne in situ and satellite remote sensing climatologies of cirrus and humidity, which serve as a guide to cirrus clouds. Further, exemplary radiative characteristics of cirrus types and also in situ observations of tropical tropopause layer cirrus and humidity in the Asian monsoon anticyclone are shown.