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Comment on “Glory phenomenon informs of presence and phase state of liquid water in cold clouds” by Anatoly N. Nevzorov

Mayer, Bernhard and Emde, Claudia (2007) Comment on “Glory phenomenon informs of presence and phase state of liquid water in cold clouds” by Anatoly N. Nevzorov. Atmospheric Research, 84, pp. 410-419. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.01.005.

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Abstract

In a recent publication “Glory phenomenon informs of presence and phase state of liquid water in cold clouds” Nevzorov [Nevzorov, A., 2006. Glory phenomenon informs of presence and phase state of liquid water in cold clouds. Atmospheric Research 82, 367–378] claims that “the convincing evidence has been provided that this sort of glory forms as a first-order bow from spherical particles with a refractive index of 1.81–1.82 and diameter over 20 μm”. This is a highly unusual finding because the refractive index of liquid water and ice is between 1.30 and 1.35 in the visible spectral range. The author concludes that “once more corroboration is gained […] of droplets of liquid water in specific phase state referred to amorphous water, or A-water”. Here we show that the phenomena described by the author are easily explained assuming liquid water with a refractive index of 1.33 and a realistic droplet size distribution with an effective radius of around 10 μm. We conclude that this type of observations does not corroborate the existence of amorphous water in the atmosphere. In a recent publication we showed how to quantitatively derive cloud optical thickness, effective droplet radius, and even the width of the size distribution from observations of the glory [Mayer, B., Schröder, M., Preusker, R., Schüller, L., 2004. Remote sensing of water cloud droplet size distributions using the backscatter glory: a case study. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 4, 1255–1263].

Item URL in elib:https://elib.dlr.de/48660/
Document Type:Article
Title:Comment on “Glory phenomenon informs of presence and phase state of liquid water in cold clouds” by Anatoly N. Nevzorov
Authors:
AuthorsInstitution or Email of AuthorsAuthor's ORCID iDORCID Put Code
Mayer, BernhardUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Emde, ClaudiaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Date:2007
Journal or Publication Title:Atmospheric Research
Refereed publication:Yes
Open Access:Yes
Gold Open Access:No
In SCOPUS:Yes
In ISI Web of Science:Yes
Volume:84
DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.01.005
Page Range:pp. 410-419
Publisher:Elsevier
Status:Published
Keywords:cloud, radiation, scattering, radiative transfer, remote sensing, microphysics
HGF - Research field:Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old)
HGF - Program:Space (old)
HGF - Program Themes:W EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Research area:Space
DLR - Program:W EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Research theme (Project):W - Vorhaben Atmosphären- und Klimaforschung (old)
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institutes and Institutions:Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Deposited By: Mayer, Dr.rer.nat. Bernhard
Deposited On:19 Jun 2007
Last Modified:31 Jul 2019 19:19

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