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Journal Title:
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Personal Author:
Holz, R. E. ; Platnick, S. ; Meyer, K. ; Vaughan, M. ; Heidinger, A. ; ... More +
Holz, R. E. ; Platnick, S. ; Meyer, K. ; Vaughan, M. ; Heidinger, A. ; Yang, P. ; Wind, G. ; Dutcher, S. ; Ackerman, S. ; Amarasinghe, N. ; Nagle, F. ; Wang, C. ; Less -
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CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) ;
Description:
The lack of independent validation motivates the investigation presented in this paper, wherein systematic biases between MODIS Collection 5 (C5) and CALIOP Version 3 (V3) unconstrained retrievals of tenuous IOT (< 3) are examined using a month of collocated A-Train observations. An initial comparison revealed a factor of 2 bias between the MODIS and CALIOP IOT retrievals. This bias is investigated using an infrared (IR) radiative closure approach that compares both products with MODIS IR cirrus retrievals developed for this assessment. The analysis finds that both the MODIS C5 and the unconstrained CALIOP V3 retrievals are biased (high and low, respectively) relative to the IR IOT retrievals.
Keywords:
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Evaluation
Ice Clouds
Infrared Equipment
Optical Properties
Remote Sensing

Source:
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16(8), 5075–5090
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016
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Journal Article ;
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CC BY
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urn:sha256:35221979a3749cbe9579289532307b5e95d71cb90ab633964fc3a2134c3578d4
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