Comparison of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals

Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount

1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA 2 Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 3 Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 4 Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 5 Department of Atmospheric Science, University of ...

AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO clouds

B. H. Kahn, M. T. Chahine, G. L. Stephens, G. G. Mace, R. T. Marchand, Z. Wang, C. D. Barnet, A. Eldering, R. E. Holz, R. E. Kuehn, and D. G. Vane Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Joint Institut...

Combined CloudSat‐CALIPSO‐MODIS retrievals of the properties of ice clouds

[1] In this paper, data from spaceborne radar, lidar and infrared radiometers on the “A‐Train” of satellites are combined in a variational algorithm to retrieve ice cloud properties. The method allows a seamless retrieval between regions where both radar and lidar are sensitive to the regions where one detects the cloud. We first implement a cloud phase identification method, including identifi...

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A Comparison among Four Different Retrieval Methods for Ice-Cloud Properties Using Data from CloudSat, CALIPSO, and MODIS

The A-Train constellation of satellites provides a new capability to measure vertical cloud profiles that leads to more detailed information on ice-cloud microphysical properties than has been possible up to now. A variational radar–lidar ice-cloud retrieval algorithm (VarCloud) takes advantage of the complementary nature of the CloudSat radar and Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Sat...