CERES Clouds Working Group Report - NASA

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• Alteration of Terra 3.7-µm Collection-5 calibration seems to have worked well for polar night, Aqua and Terra now very similar in Arctic! MODIS Total Cloud Amounts, January 2007! Aqua Ed 2 ! ! ! !Terra Ed 2! Aqua Ed 4 ! ! ! !Terra Ed 4!
Low Cloud Heights! ! • Ed2 used 7.1 K/km lapse rate anchored to surface to assign cloud height below 700 hPa! ! ! ! ! ! !- Minnis et al. (2011)! ! • Ed3 would have used zonal mean lapse rate based on MODIS- CALIPSO data! ! ! ! ! ! !- Minnis et al. (2010)! ! • Ed4 uses regional lapse rates based on MODIS-CALIPSO data! ! ! ! ! ! !- Sun-Mack et al. (2013)! ! !
Page 1 and 2: CERES Cloud Properties: Ed4, SNPP &
Page 3 and 4: Update of CERES Cloud-related Paper
Page 5 and 6: Cloud Parameters in CERES Edition 2
Page 7 and 8: MODIS Processing Status! • Ed2 pr
Page 9: • Alteration of Terra 3.7-µm Col
Page 13 and 14: Daytime boundary layer lapse rates
Page 15 and 16: Instantaneous Low Cloud Height Diff
Page 17 and 18: Regional Mean Nighttime Low Cloud H
Page 19 and 20: Terra! Water Cloud Effective Height
Page 21 and 22: Terra! Ice Cloud Effective Height C
Page 23 and 24: Terra! Aqua! Change Water droplet E
Page 25 and 26: MODIS Edition 4 Tasks! • Continue
Page 27 and 28: VIIRS Spectral Channels!
Page 29 and 30: • Acquire necessary auxiliary inf
Page 31 and 32: VIIRS Cloud Fraction Comparison w/
Page 33 and 34: VIIRS Cloud Detection! • Tune clo
Page 35 and 36: VIIRS Water Cloud COD Comparison w/
Page 37 and 38: Whatʼs Ahead for CERES SNPP VIIRS!
Page 39 and 40: Meteosat-9 vs Aqua Cloud Amounts, D
Page 41 and 42: GEOSat Cloud Fraction, March 2013!
Page 43: GEOSat Tasks! • Validate calibrat

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