A test of the ability of current bulk optical models to represent the radiative properties of cirrus cloud across the mid- and far-infrared

Bantges, Richard J.; Brindley, Helen E.; Murray, Jonathan E.; Last, Alan E.; Russell, Jacqueline E.; Fox, Cathryn; Fox, Stuart; Harlow, Chawn; O'Shea, Sebastian J.; Bower, Keith N.; Baum, Bryan A.; Yang, Ping; Oetjen, Hilke; Pickering, Juliet C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12889-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12889-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12889-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

Research article

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05 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 05 Nov 2020

A test of the ability of current bulk optical models to represent the radiative properties of cirrus cloud across the mid- and far-infrared

Richard J. Bantges, Helen E. Brindley, Jonathan E. Murray, Alan E. Last, Jacqueline E. Russell, Cathryn Fox, Stuart Fox, Chawn Harlow, Sebastian J. O'Shea, Keith N. Bower, Bryan A. Baum, Ping Yang, Hilke Oetjen, and Juliet C. Pickering

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RC1: 'Review of "A test of the ability of current bulk optical models to represent the radiative properties of cirrus cloud across the mid-and far-infrared"', Quentin Libois, 14 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review of Bantges et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 May 2020
AC1: 'Authors' responses to the referees' comments', Richard Bantges, 24 Aug 2020

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AR by Richard Bantges on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2020)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Sep 2020) by Bernhard Mayer

RR by Quentin Libois (15 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish as is (16 Sep 2020) by Bernhard Mayer

AR by Richard Bantges on behalf of the Authors (21 Sep 2020)

Short summary

Understanding how ice clouds influence the Earth's energy balance remains a key challenge for predicting the future climate. These clouds are ubiquitous and are composed of ice crystals that have complex shapes that are incredibly difficult to model. This work exploits new measurements of the Earth's emitted thermal energy made from instruments flown on board an aircraft to test how well the latest ice cloud models can represent these clouds. Results indicate further developments are required.