Joint cloud water path and rainwater path retrievals from airborne ORACLES observations

Dzambo, Andrew M.; L'Ecuyer, Tristan; Sinclair, Kenneth; van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan; Gupta, Siddhant; McFarquhar, Greg; O'Brien, Joseph R.; Cairns, Brian; Wasilewski, Andrzej P.; Alexandrov, Mikhail

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5513-2021

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09 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 09 Apr 2021

Joint cloud water path and rainwater path retrievals from airborne ORACLES observations

Andrew M. Dzambo, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Kenneth Sinclair, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Siddhant Gupta, Greg McFarquhar, Joseph R. O'Brien, Brian Cairns, Andrzej P. Wasilewski, and Mikhail Alexandrov

Data sets

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2016, Version 2 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2016_V2

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2017, Version 2 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2017_V2

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2018, Version 2 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2018_V2

Short summary

This work highlights a new algorithm using data collected from the 2016–2018 NASA ORACLES field campaign. This algorithm synthesizes cloud and rain measurements to attain estimates of cloud and precipitation properties over the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Estimates produced by this algorithm compare well against in situ estimates. Increased rain fractions and rain rates are found in regions of atmospheric instability. This dataset can be used to explore aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions.