The relationship between low-level cloud amount and its proxies over the globe by cloud type

Shin, Jihoon; Park, Sungsu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3041-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3041-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3041-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

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13 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 13 Mar 2020

The relationship between low-level cloud amount and its proxies over the globe by cloud type

Jihoon Shin and Sungsu Park

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RC1: 'Review comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Interactive comment on “The Relationship between Low-Level Cloud Amount and Its Proxies over the Globe by Cloud Types” by Jihoon Shin and Sungsu Park', Sungsu Park, 10 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 24 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Interactive comment on “The Relationship between Low-Level Cloud Amount and Its Proxies over the Globe by Cloud Types” by Jihoon Shin and Sungsu Park', Sungsu Park, 10 Feb 2020

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In this work, we show that the previously identified strong spatiotemporal correlation relationship between the low-level cloud amount (LCA) and its large-scale environmental proxy, the estimated low-level cloud fraction (ELF), holds for various low-level cloud types over the globe rather than for a specific cloud type. However, we also identify several weaknesses of the ELF and suggest a potential pathway to further improve it in the future as a global proxy for LCA.