Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4079-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4079-2021
Research article
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18 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 18 Mar 2021

Characterisation and surface radiative impact of Arctic low clouds from the IAOOS field experiment

Julia Maillard, François Ravetta, Jean-Christophe Raut, Vincent Mariage, and Jacques Pelon

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Clouds remain a major source of uncertainty in understanding the Arctic climate, due in part to the lack of measurements over the sea ice. In this paper, we exploit a series of lidar profiles acquired from autonomous drifting buoys deployed in the Arctic Ocean and derive a statistic of low cloud frequency and macrophysical properties. We also show that clouds contribute to warm the surface in the shoulder seasons but not significantly from May to September.
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