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DOI | 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105468 |
Cloud top height retrieval over Arctic Ocean using cloud-shadow method based on MODIS | |
Xueying Cheng, Li Yi, Jörg Bendix | |
2021-01-11 | |
发表期刊 | Atmospheric Research
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出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Cloud top height (CTH) plays an important role in the Earth's radiation budget and thus in climate change. However, accurate CTH retrieval based on satellite data remains a challenge when using currently widespread methods based on passive remote sensing satellite data, particularly over the Arctic Ocean. It is well known that using geometric correlation between CTH and cloud-shadow distance along the normal direction of sunlight, cloud-edge top height (CETH) can be determined. However, this cloud-shadow method (CSM) exhibited larger CTH errors due to low-resolution weather satellite data of the past. The aim of the paper is to analyze the effect of higher-resolution image (MODIS with 250-m resolution) on CSM accuracy. We present a method in which CETH is first retrieved using the MODIS data, and to calculate CTH in the center of cloud region by combining the calculated CETH and cloud top brightness temperature using an environmental temperature lapse rate method. We validated 14 cases over the Arctic Ocean by the CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) CTH lidar product and another two cases by radiosonde data. CSM revealed better performance (mean difference is 0.45 km and standard deviation is 0.92 km) compared to the operational MODIS CTH product (mean difference is −0.78 km and standard deviation is 1.78 km), when validated by the CALIPSO product. When validated by sounding data, CSM also performed better than the MODIS CTH product: the CSM CTH errors are 0.41 and 0.52 km in two sounding cases, while the corresponding MODIS CTH errors are −1.10 and 1.07 km. The CSM technique especially showed better performance for double-deck cloud systems. We conclude that further improvements in CTH accuracy based on CSM can be achieved by mainly using higher-resolution satellite imagery. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/311278 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xueying Cheng, Li Yi, Jörg Bendix. Cloud top height retrieval over Arctic Ocean using cloud-shadow method based on MODIS[J]. Atmospheric Research,2021. |
APA | Xueying Cheng, Li Yi, Jörg Bendix.(2021).Cloud top height retrieval over Arctic Ocean using cloud-shadow method based on MODIS.Atmospheric Research. |
MLA | Xueying Cheng, Li Yi, Jörg Bendix."Cloud top height retrieval over Arctic Ocean using cloud-shadow method based on MODIS".Atmospheric Research (2021). |
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