A Ground-Based Doppler Radar and Micropulse Lidar Forward Simulator for GCM Evaluation of Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds: Moving Forward Towards an Apples-to-apples Comparison of Hydrometeor Phase

Katia Lamer, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Ann M Fridlind, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Andrew S Ackerman, NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, Pavlos Kollias, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States and Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Penn State, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States