Assessing the vertical structure of Arctic aerosols using balloon-borne measurements

Creamean, Jessie M.; de Boer, Gijs; Telg, Hagen; Mei, Fan; Dexheimer, Darielle; Shupe, Matthew D.; Solomon, Amy; McComiskey, Allison

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1737-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1737-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1737-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 3

Research article

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09 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 09 Feb 2021

Assessing the vertical structure of Arctic aerosols using balloon-borne measurements

Jessie M. Creamean, Gijs de Boer, Hagen Telg, Fan Mei, Darielle Dexheimer, Matthew D. Shupe, Amy Solomon, and Allison McComiskey

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

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RC1: 'Review comments on manuscript “Assessing the vertical structure of Arctic aerosols using tetheredballoon-borne measurements”', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Nov 2020
AC1: 'Response to reviewer comments', Jessie Creamean, 17 Dec 2020

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AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (18 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Dec 2020) by Hang Su

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (22 Dec 2020)

ED: Publish as is (27 Dec 2020) by Hang Su

AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (30 Dec 2020)

Short summary

Arctic clouds play a role in modulating sea ice extent. Importantly, aerosols facilitate cloud formation, and thus it is crucial to understand the interactions between aerosols and clouds. Vertical measurements of aerosols and clouds are needed to tackle this issue. We present results from balloon-borne measurements of aerosols and clouds over the course of 2 years in northern Alaska. These data shed light onto the vertical distributions of aerosols relative to clouds spanning multiple seasons.