• DOI:10.5194/AMT-2017-75
Corpus ID: 99940536

The effects of different footprint sizes and cloud algorithms on the top-of-atmosphere radiative flux calculation from CERES instrument on Suomi-NPP

@article{Su2017TheEO,
  title={The effects of different footprint sizes and cloud algorithms on the top-of-atmosphere radiative flux calculation from CERES instrument on Suomi-NPP},
  author={W. Su and L. Liang and W. F. Miller and Victor E. Sothcott},
  journal={Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions},
  year={2017},
  pages={1-26}
}

• W. Su, L. Liang, +1 author Victor E. Sothcott
• Published 2017
• Environmental Science
• Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions

Only one CERES instrument is onboard the Suomi-NPP and it has been placed in cross-track mode since launch, it is thus not possible to construct a set of angular distribution models (ADMs) specific for CERES on NPP. Edition 4 Aqua ADMs were used for flux inversions for CERES-NPP measurements. However, the footprint size of CERES-NPP is larger than that of CERES-Aqua, as the altitude of the NPP orbit is higher than that of the Aqua orbit. Furthermore, cloud retrievals from VIIRS and MODIS, the… Expand

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