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Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-5603-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-5603-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
Research article
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23 Apr 2026
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2026

The diurnal cycle and temperature dependence of crystal shapes in ice clouds from satellite lidar polarized measurements

Vincent Noel, Hélène Chepfer, Christelle Barthe, and John Yorks

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The shape of crystals in ice clouds drives their impact on the earth energy balance. These shapes are very variable and hard to categorize. In this paper, we use a recently developed method to classify clouds in categories of crystal shape. We apply this method to 33 months of measurements from a lidar in space. We discuss how the importance of shape categories changes with the time of the day. These results could be useful for people who try to simulate clouds in atmospheric models.
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