Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using  infrared retrievals

Holz, Robert E.; Platnick, Steven; Meyer, Kerry; Vaughan, Mark; Heidinger, Andrew; Yang, Ping; Wind, Gala; Dutcher, Steven; Ackerman, Steven; Amarasinghe, Nandana; Nagle, Fredrick; Wang, Chenxi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

Research article

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25 Apr 2016

Research article |

| 25 Apr 2016

Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals

Robert E. Holz, Steven Platnick, Kerry Meyer, Mark Vaughan, Andrew Heidinger, Ping Yang, Gala Wind, Steven Dutcher, Steven Ackerman, Nandana Amarasinghe, Fredrick Nagle, and Chenxi Wang

Data sets

MODIS Atmosphere L2 Cloud Product (06_L2) Platnick, S., Ackerman, S., King, M., et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD06_L2.006

CALIPSO/CALIOP Level 2, Lidar Cloud Profile Data, version 3.01 CALIPSO Science Team (2015) https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L2_05kmCPro-Prov-V3-01_L2-003.01

CALIPSO/CALIOP Level 2, Lidar Cloud Layer Data, version 3.01 CALIPSO Science Team (2015) https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Prov-V3-01_L2-003.01