The sub-adiabatic model as a concept for evaluating the representation and radiative effects of low-level clouds in a high-resolution atmospheric model

Barlakas, Vasileios; Deneke, Hartwig; Macke, Andreas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-303-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-303-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-303-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

Research article

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08 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 08 Jan 2020

The sub-adiabatic model as a concept for evaluating the representation and radiative effects of low-level clouds in a high-resolution atmospheric model

Vasileios Barlakas, Hartwig Deneke, and Andreas Macke

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

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RC1: 'Comment on acp-2019-137', Anonymous Referee #3, 18 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee #3', Vasileios Barlakas, 08 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of Barlakas et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee #1', Vasileios Barlakas, 08 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Review of Barlakas et al ACPD', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Aug 2019
- AC3: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee #2', Vasileios Barlakas, 08 Oct 2019

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

AR by Vasileios Barlakas on behalf of the Authors (13 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Oct 2019) by Toshihiko Takemura

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (29 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (31 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (31 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish as is (06 Nov 2019) by Toshihiko Takemura

AR by Vasileios Barlakas on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2019)

Short summary

By means of a high-resolution model, we demonstrated the suitability of the sub-adiabatic cloud model to serve as a conceptual tool for the evaluation of the representation of low-level clouds and to capture the relevant properties that determine the shortwave cloud radiative effect. We also highlighted the differences in cloud radiative effect resulting from different cloud microphysics schemes used in models and pointed to the need to better account for prognostic droplet number concentration.