Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/ascmo-2-49-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/ascmo-2-49-2016
10 Jun 2016
 | 10 Jun 2016

A path towards uncertainty assignment in an operational cloud-phase algorithm from ARM vertically pointing active sensors

Laura D. Riihimaki, Jennifer M. Comstock, Kevin K. Anderson, Aimee Holmes, and Edward Luke

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Between atmospheric temperatures of 0 and −38 °C, clouds contain ice crystals, super-cooled liquid droplets, or a mixture of both, impacting how they influence the atmospheric energy budget and challenging our ability to simulate climate change. Better cloud-phase measurements are needed to improve simulations. We demonstrate how a Bayesian method to identify cloud phase can improve on currently used methods by including information from multiple measurements and probability estimates.