Articles | Volume 22, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10247-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10247-2022
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10 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 10 Aug 2022

Exploring relations between cloud morphology, cloud phase, and cloud radiative properties in Southern Ocean's stratocumulus clouds

Jessica Danker, Odran Sourdeval, Isabel L. McCoy, Robert Wood, and Anna Possner

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Using spaceborne lidar-radar retrievals, we show that seasonal changes in cloud phase outweigh changes in cloud-phase statistics across cloud morphologies at given cloud-top temperatures. These results show that cloud morphology does not seem to pose a primary constraint on cloud-phase statistics in the Southern Ocean. Meanwhile, larger changes in in-cloud albedo across cloud morphologies are observed in supercooled liquid rather than mixed-phase stratocumuli.
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