Statistics of geometrical and optical properties of cirrus clouds from 5 years of Micro Pulse Lidar measurements. These data are from 203 high-altitude cirrus clouds, to which the two-way transmittance method has been properly applied.

The MPLNET products are publicly available on the MPLNET website (https://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov/download_tool/) (MPLNET, 2023) in accordance with the data policy statement. The CALIPSO product is provided by the NASA Langley Research Center’s (LaRC) ASDC DAAC and is managed by the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. NASA data are freely accessible and available on the Atmospheric Science Data Center website (https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/) (NASA, 2023). Radiosoundings data are available upon request from the authors or Meteocat.

MPLNET: The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network products publication, https://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov/download_tool, 2023. Last access: 8 June 2023.

NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC: CALIPSO Lidar Level 1 Standard, V4-10. NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center DAAC. Retrieved from https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CALIPSO/LID_L1-Standard-V4-10/contents.html, 2023. Last access: 8 June 2023.