Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses:  origins and radiative impacts

Wright, Jonathon S.; Sun, Xiaoyi; Konopka, Paul; Krüger, Kirstin; Legras, Bernard; Molod, Andrea M.; Tegtmeier, Susann; Zhang, Guang J.; Zhao, Xi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8989-2020

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29 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 29 Jul 2020

Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts

Jonathon S. Wright, Xiaoyi Sun, Paul Konopka, Kirstin Krüger, Bernard Legras, Andrea M. Molod, Susann Tegtmeier, Guang J. Zhang, and Xi Zhao

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RC1: 'Reivew of Wright et al.', Yi Huang, 25 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review of ACP-2019-1187: Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts.', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Mar 2020
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Short summary

High clouds are influential in tropical climate. Although reanalysis cloud fields are essentially model products, they are indirectly constrained by observations and offer global coverage with direct links to advanced water and energy cycle metrics, giving them many useful applications. We describe how high cloud fields are generated in reanalyses, assess their realism and reliability in the tropics, and evaluate how differences in these fields affect other aspects of the reanalysis state.