The prevalence of precipitation from polar supercooled clouds

Silber, Israel; Fridlind, Ann M.; Verlinde, Johannes; Ackerman, Andrew S.; Cesana, Grégory V.; Knopf, Daniel A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3949-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3949-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3949-2021

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

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

Research article

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17 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 17 Mar 2021

The prevalence of precipitation from polar supercooled clouds

Israel Silber, Ann M. Fridlind, Johannes Verlinde, Andrew S. Ackerman, Grégory V. Cesana, and Daniel A. Knopf

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Mar 2021)
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RC1: 'Review of “The Prevalence of Precipitation from Polar Supercooled Clouds“ by Israel Silber et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of Silbert et al., The Prevalence of Precipitation from Polar Supercooled Clouds', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Jan 2021
AC1: 'Response to Reviewers', Israel Silber, 10 Feb 2021

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AR by Israel Silber on behalf of the Authors (10 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Feb 2021) by Corinna Hoose

AR by Israel Silber on behalf of the Authors (14 Feb 2021)

Short summary

Long-term ground-based radar and sounding measurements over Alaska (Antarctica) indicate that more than 85 % (75 %) of supercooled clouds are precipitating at cloud base and that 75 % (50 %) are precipitating to the surface. Such high prevalence is reconciled with lesser spaceborne estimates by considering radar sensitivity. Results provide a strong observational constraint for polar cloud processes in large-scale models.