Comments on “Effective Radius of Ice Cloud Particle Populations Derived from Aircraft Probes”
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The recent paper by Heymsfield et al. (2006, hereafter H06) comments on the accuracy of various in situ measurements of the extinction coefficient by in situ cloud probes. The measurements have particular relevance for their contribution to understanding cloudradiative properties. Climate models are largely concerned with predicting fields of electromagnetic radiation. However, they instead track constituent phase and mass. To relate phase and mass to the shortwave and longwave radiative flux divergences, values of are obtained using the parameterized radiative length scale known as the effective radius re. From the cloud condensed-phase mass density, or water content (WC),
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تاریخ انتشار 2007