A Comparison of Cloud Properties at a Coastal and Inland Site at the North Slope of Alaska

June 1, 2002

Journal Article

A Comparison of Cloud Properties at a Coastal and Inland Site at the North Slope of Alaska

Abstract

We have examined differences in cloud liquid water paths (LWPs) at a coastal (Barrow) and an inland (Atqasuk) location on the North Slope of Alaska using microwave radiometer (MWR) data collected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program for the period June-September 1999. Revised retrieval procedures and a filtering algorithm to eliminate data contaminated by wet windows on the MWRs were employed to extract high-quality data suitable for this study. For clouds with low base heights (

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Citation

Doran J.C., S. Zhong, J.C. Liljegren, and C. Jakob. 2002. A Comparison of Cloud Properties at a Coastal and Inland Site at the North Slope of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 107, no. D11:4120. PNNL-SA-35459. doi:10.1029/2001JD000819