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| العنوان: |
Extensive coverage of ultrathin tropical tropopause layer cirrus clouds revealed by balloon-borne lidar observations. |
| المؤلفون: |
Lesigne, Thomas, Ravetta, François, Podglajen, Aurélien, Mariage, Vincent, Pelon, Jacques |
| المصدر: |
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics; 2024, Vol. 24 Issue 10, p5935-5952, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CIRRUS clouds, TROPOPAUSE, LIDAR, WATER vapor, STRATOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC water vapor measurement |
| مستخلص: |
Tropical tropopause layer (TTL) clouds have a significant impact on the Earth's radiative budget and regulate the amount of water vapor entering the stratosphere. Estimating the total coverage of tropical cirrus clouds is challenging, since the range of their optical depth spans several orders of magnitude, from thick opaque cirrus detrained from convection to sub-visible clouds just below the stratosphere. During the Strateole-2 observation campaign, three microlidars were flown on board stratospheric superpressure balloons from October 2021 to late January 2022, slowly drifting only a few kilometers above the TTL. These measurements have unprecedented sensitivity to thin cirrus and provide a fine-scale description of cloudy structures both in time and in space. Case studies of collocated observations with the spaceborne Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) show very good agreement between the instruments and highlight the Balloon-borne Cirrus and convective overshOOt Lidar's (BeCOOL) higher detection sensitivity. Indeed, the microlidar is able to detect optically very thin clouds (optical depth τ<2×10-3) that are undetected by CALIOP. Statistics on cloud occurrence show that TTL cirrus appear in about 50 % of the microlidar profiles and have a mean geometrical depth of 1 km. Ultrathin TTL cirrus (τ<2×10-3) have a significant coverage (23 % of the profiles), and their mean geometrical depth is 0.5 km. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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