Annales Geophysicae www.ann-geophys.net 0992-7689 1432-0576 25 7 2007 10.5194/angeo-25-1487-2007 http://www.ann-geophys.net/25/1487/2007/ http://www.ann-geophys.net/25/1487/2007/angeo-25-1487-2007.html http://www.ann-geophys.net/25/1487/2007/angeo-25-1487-2007.pdf 1487 1497 2007-07-30 Microphysical and optical properties of precipitating drizzle and ice particles obtained from alternated lidar and in situ measurements J.-F. Gayet j.f.gayet@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr I. S. Stachlewska O. Jourdan V. Shcherbakov A. Schwarzenboeck R. Neuber LaMP UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Blaise Pascal, 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany now at: Leosphere, EcolePolytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France During the international ASTAR experiment (Arctic Study of Aerosols, Clouds and Radiation) carried out from Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) from 10 May to 11 June 2004, the AWI (Alfred Wegener Institute) Polar 2 aircraft was equipped with a unique combination of remote and in situ instruments. The airborne AMALi lidar provided downward backscatter and Depolarisation ratio profiles at 532 nm wavelength. The in situ instrumental setup comprised a Polar Nephelometer, a Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) as well as a Nevzorov and standard PMS probes to measure cloud particle properties in terms of scattering characteristics, particle morphology and size, and in-cloud partitioning of ice/water content. The objective of the paper is to present the results of a case study related to observations with ice crystals precipitating down to supercooled boundary-layer stratocumulus. The flight pattern was predefined in a way that firstly the AMALi lidar probed the cloud tops to guide the in situ measurements into a particular cloud formation. Three kinds of clouds with different microphysical and optical properties have therefore been quasi-simultaneously observed: (i) water droplets stratiform-layer, (ii) drizzle-drops fallstreak and (iii) precipitating ice-crystals from a cirrus cloud above. The signatures of these clouds are clearly evidenced from the in situ measurements and from the lidar profiles in term of backscatter and Depolarisation ratio. Accordingly, typical lidar ratios, i.e., extinction-to-backscatter ratios, are derived from the measured scattering phase function combined with subsequent particle shapes and size distributions. 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