Statistical analysis of ice microphysical properties in tropical mesoscale convective systems derived from cloud radar and in situ microphysical observations

Fontaine, Emmanuel; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons; Leroy, Delphine; Delanoë, Julien; Protat, Alain; Dezitter, Fabien; Strapp, John Walter; Lilie, Lyle Edward

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3503-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3503-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3503-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

Research article

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25 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 25 Mar 2020

Statistical analysis of ice microphysical properties in tropical mesoscale convective systems derived from cloud radar and in situ microphysical observations

Emmanuel Fontaine, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Delphine Leroy, Julien Delanoë, Alain Protat, Fabien Dezitter, John Walter Strapp, and Lyle Edward Lilie

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Preprint (discussion started on 21 Jun 2019)

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RC1: 'Reviewer # 1', Darrel Baumgardner, 31 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'answer to Referee 1', Emmanuel Fontaine, 05 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Review of Fontaine et al., acp-2019-502', Wiebke Frey, 31 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to Referee 2', Emmanuel Fontaine, 05 Nov 2019
AC3: 'temporary draft with Referee comment flags', Emmanuel Fontaine, 05 Nov 2019

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

AR by Emmanuel Fontaine on behalf of the Authors (10 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Jan 2020) by Corinna Hoose

RR by Darrel Baumgardner (20 Jan 2020)

RR by Wiebke Frey (07 Feb 2020)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

The authors have done a great job revising the manuscript! Congratulations!
I feel that in general all my questions have been answered.

I only came across a few rather technical points/corrections in the revised manuscript, which I will outline below.

Formatting of units: I found that sometimes you have dots (.) within the units (e.g. m.s-1), they should be removed.

"Globally" - I find you use the phrase globally (or global) several times where I feel it might not be the correct use. It sounds a bit like a programmer talking about global variables, but I have never heard this in the 'experimental world'. In some instances I think, you could replace it with "in total", and sometimes it could even be removed. Please check.

p2 l11: "...droplet larger than 500mum until 3mm" ->you mean 'up to' 3mm?

p2 l16: "...about 2mm and more are found"-> 2mm and larger? Similar in the next line 500mum an less/smaller?

p3 l1: ...RASTA are calculating -> calculated

p4 l28: ... MSC can expend -> extend?
..., where size and repartition -> partition?
p6 l18: "wret" - I think "ret" should be in lower case

p9 l40: "This section discuss about IWC..." -> This section discusses the IWC...

p9 l41: the four dataset -> data sets

p10 l4: in 4 tropical MCS -> 4 tropical data sets?

p13 l11 and eq 3: Here you say N_(T,55) and in the sum Dmax from 55 to 12845, while later you write N_(T,50). Is 50mum or 55mum correct?

p14 Fig. 9: x-axis annotation has a wrong closing bracket after Dmax, ] instead of ).

p17 l8/9: I thnk there was a misunderstanding of my former comment, you explain in the text what f_p and f_s are, you should also mention what the paraeters e_p and e_s are in the text.

p21 l20: This section discuses about... -> This section discusses the results...

p23 Fig. 20: x-axis annotation says "CWC", figure caption says "IWC", please correct.

p33 l23: ...stratiform par -> stratiform part

p40 l29: Total concentration since 15microns -> better: Total concentrations for Dmax>15mum

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Feb 2020) by Corinna Hoose

AR by Emmanuel Fontaine on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

This study investigates properties of ice hydrometeors (shape, concentration, density, and size) in deep convective systems. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences over four locations in the tropical troposphere. It shows that measurements as a function of temperature and radar reflectivity factors tend to be similar in the four types of deep convective systems when concentrations of ice are larger than 0.1 g m^-3.