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Characterisation and surface radiative impact of Arctic low clouds from the IAOOS field experiment
Julia Maillard
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LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
François Ravetta
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
Jean-Christophe Raut
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
Vincent Mariage
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
Jacques Pelon
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
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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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