Revisiting global satellite observations of stratospheric cirrus clouds

Zou, Ling; Griessbach, Sabine; Hoffmann, Lars; Gong, Bing; Wang, Lunche

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9939-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9939-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9939-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 16

Research article

| Highlight paper

|

26 Aug 2020

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 26 Aug 2020

Revisiting global satellite observations of stratospheric cirrus clouds

Ling Zou, Sabine Griessbach, Lars Hoffmann, Bing Gong, and Lunche Wang

Download

Final revised paper (published on 26 Aug 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 23 Apr 2020)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'MS No.: acp-2020-304', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 May 2020
- AC1: ''Authors' Response to reviewer comments #2', Ling Zou, 08 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review of "Revisiting global satellite observations of stratospheric cirrus clouds" by L. Zou, S. Griessbach, L. Hoffmann, B. Gong and L. Wang, proposed for publication in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics', Vincent Noel, 24 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Authors' Response to reviewer comments #1', Ling Zou, 10 Jul 2020

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Ling Zou on behalf of the Authors (10 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Jul 2020) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Ling Zou on behalf of the Authors (23 Jul 2020)

Short summary

Cirrus clouds appearing in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere have important impacts on the radiation budget and climate change. We revisited global stratospheric cirrus clouds with CALIPSO and for the first time with MIPAS satellite observations. Stratospheric cirrus clouds related to deep convection are frequently detected in the tropics. At middle latitudes, MIPAS detects more than twice as many stratospheric cirrus clouds due to higher detection sensitivity.