Quasi-coincident observations of polar stratospheric clouds by ground-based lidar and CALIOP at Concordia (Dome C, Antarctica) from 2014 to 2018

Snels, Marcel; Colao, Francesco; Cairo, Francesco; Shuli, Ilir; Scoccione, Andrea; De Muro, Mauro; Pitts, Michael; Poole, Lamont; Di Liberto, Luca

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

© 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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15 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 15 Feb 2021

Quasi-coincident observations of polar stratospheric clouds by ground-based lidar and CALIOP at Concordia (Dome C, Antarctica) from 2014 to 2018

Marcel Snels, Francesco Colao, Francesco Cairo, Ilir Shuli, Andrea Scoccione, Mauro De Muro, Michael Pitts, Lamont Poole, and Luca Di Liberto

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RC1: 'Review on Snels et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Marcel Snels, 23 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of Paper acp-2020-972 by M. Snels et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Dec 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Marcel Snels, 23 Dec 2020

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

AR by Marcel Snels on behalf of the Authors (23 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Jan 2021) by Rolf Müller

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Jan 2021)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

Most of my comments have been taken into account and therefore I only have a few technical corrections that should be considered before publication in ACP:

P3, L1: add "lidar" after "gorund-based.

P3, L5: space between opening parentheses obsolete and reference should be embedded in the text, thus it should read e.g. Tesche et al. (2020))

P3, L34: space before opening parentheses obsolete

P5, L1: has -> has been

P5, L1: long time series observation -> long-term observations

P5, L10: Same here as on P3, the reference should be embedded in the text so that it reads "(see Waugh and Randel (1999))

P5, L20: with - > to

P5, L24: add and between the Hunt et al. and Winker et al. reference

P6, L16: Same here between Pitts et al. (2018) and Snels et al. (2019)

P6, L25: Data processing -> Data Processing

P7, Fig 2 caption: NAt -> NAT

P8, L5: add "(National Centers for Environmental Predictions)" after NCEP

P8, L21: (Snels et al. (2009)) -> (Snels et al., 2019)

P8, L21: What do you mean with using "Klett"? Is that a method or a reference? Either way a refence is missing what Klett actually is.

P9, L1: Error processing -> Error Processing

P9, L10: (see also (Snels et al., 2019)) -> (see also Snels et al. (2009))

P11, L16: figure 3 -> Figure 3

P12, L3: ground-based -> Ground-based and data -> Data

P13, L1: in CALIOP data -> in the CALIOP data

P13, Fig 4 caption: spaces around "=" missing for red and blue

P15, L14: doesn't -> does not

P16, Table 3 caption: has been listed -> are listed

P16, L4 from top: (method 3) -> (ground.based method 3)

P16, L15: then -> than

P17, L6: add "reanalyses data" so that it reads "from ERA5 reanalyses dataset"

P17, Fig 8 caption: spaces missing after "=" for red and blue

P18, L13: a important -> an important

P19, L16: space before comma obsolete

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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Jan 2021) by Rolf Müller

AR by Marcel Snels on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

A total of 5 years of polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) observations by ground-based lidar at Concordia station (Antarctica) are presented. These data have been recorded in coincidence with the overpasses of the CALIOP lidar on the CALIPSO satellite. First we demonstrate that both lidars observe essentially the same thing, in terms of detection and composition of the PSCs. Then we use both datasets to study seasonal and interannual variations in the formation temperature of NAT mixtures.