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DOI | 10.5194/acp-17-7035-2017 |
Evaluating the diurnal cycle in cloud top temperature from SEVIRI | |
Taylor, Sarah1; Stier, Philip1; White, Bethan1; Finkensieper, Stephan2; Stengel, Martin2 | |
2017-06-14 | |
发表期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 17期号:11 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; Germany |
英文摘要 | The variability of convective cloud spans a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and is of fundamental importance for global weather and climate systems. Datasets from geostationary satellite instruments such as the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) provide high-time-resolution observations across a large area. In this study we use data from SEVIRI to quantify the diurnal cycle of cloud top temperature within the instrument's field of view and discuss these results in relation to retrieval biases. We evaluate SEVIRI cloud top temperatures from the new CLAAS-2 (CLoud property dAtAset using SEVIRI, Edition 2) dataset against Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data. Results show a mean bias of +0.44K with a standard deviation of 11.7 K, which is in agreement with previous validation studies. Analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of these errors shows that absolute retrieval biases vary from less than 5K over the southeast Atlantic Ocean up to 30K over central Africa at night. Night-and daytime retrieval biases can also differ by up to 30K in some areas, potentially contributing to biases in the estimated amplitude of the diurnal cycle. This illustrates the importance of considering spatial and diurnal variations in retrieval errors when using the CLAAS-2 dataset. Keeping these biases in mind, we quantify the seasonal, diurnal, and spatial variation of cloud top temperature across SEVIRI's field of view using the CLAAS-2 dataset. By comparing the mean diurnal cycle of cloud top temperature with the retrieval bias, we find that diurnal variations in the retrieval bias can be small but are often of the same order of magnitude as the amplitude of the observed diurnal cycle, indicating that in some regions the diurnal cycle apparent in the observations may be significantly impacted by diurnal variability in the accuracy of the retrieval. We show that the CLAAS-2 dataset can measure the diurnal cycle of cloud tops accurately in regions of stratiform cloud such as the southeast Atlantic Ocean and Europe, where cloud top temperature retrieval biases are small and exhibit limited spatial and temporal variability. Quantifying the diurnal cycle over the tropics and regions of desert is more difficult, as retrieval biases are larger and display significant diurnal variability. CLAAS-2 cloud top temperature data are found to be of limited skill in measuring the diurnal cycle accurately over desert regions. In tropical regions such as central Africa, the diurnal cycle can be described by the CLAAS-2 data to some extent, although retrieval biases appear to reduce the amplitude of the real diurnal cycle of cloud top temperatures. This is the first study to relate the diurnal variations in SEVIRI retrieval bias to observed diurnal cycles in cloud top temperature. Our results may be of interest to those in the observation and modelling communities when using cloud top properties data from SEVIRI, particularly for studies considering the diurnal cycle of convection. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000403219000005 |
WOS关键词 | CM-SAF ; PRECIPITATION ; SATELLITE ; CONVECTION ; TROPICS ; CALIPSO ; MODEL ; CLIMATOLOGY ; RAINFALL ; LAND |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30792 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Atmospher Ocean & Planetary Phys, Oxford, England; 2.Deutsch Wetterdienst DWD, Offenbach, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Taylor, Sarah,Stier, Philip,White, Bethan,et al. Evaluating the diurnal cycle in cloud top temperature from SEVIRI[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2017,17(11). |
APA | Taylor, Sarah,Stier, Philip,White, Bethan,Finkensieper, Stephan,&Stengel, Martin.(2017).Evaluating the diurnal cycle in cloud top temperature from SEVIRI.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,17(11). |
MLA | Taylor, Sarah,et al."Evaluating the diurnal cycle in cloud top temperature from SEVIRI".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 17.11(2017). |
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