Verification of Meris Level 2 Products: Cloud Top Pressure and Cloud Optical Thickness
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چکیده
For the verification of the MERIS cloud products, a number of images above several sites above western Europe has been analyzed. The verification of the cloud products consists of three independent methods. The most important task during the verification phase was a manual review to find artefacts and non-physical values. Additionally a comparison with cloud top pressures estimated from radiosonde data and a comparison with cloud top pressures from NASA’s MODIS MOD06 product have been made. The data which has been studied is sumarized in Tab. 1 and is obtainable at [1].
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