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Title
ESA Cloud_cci cloud property datasets retrieved from passive satellite sensors: ATSR2-AATSR L3C/L3U/L2 cloud products - Version 2.0
Description
The Cloud_cci ATSR2-AATSR dataset was generated within the Cloud_cci project (http://www.esa-cloud-cci.org) which was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme (Contract No.: 4000109870/13/I-NB). This dataset is one of the 6 datasets generated in Cloud_cci; all of them being based on passive-imager satellite measurements. This dataset is based on ATSR2 and AATSR (onboard ERS2 and ENVISAT) measurements and contains a variety of cloud properties which were derived employing the Community Cloud retrieval for Climate (CC4CL; Sus et al., 2017; McGarragh et al., 2017) retrieval framework. The core cloud properties contained in the Cloud_cci ATSR2-AATSR dataset are cloud mask/fraction, cloud phase, cloud top pressure/height/temperature, cloud optical thickness, cloud effective radius and cloud liquid/ice water path. Spectral cloud albedo is also included as experimental product. The cloud properties are available at different processing levels: Level-3U (globally gridded, unaveraged data fields) and Level-3C (monthly averages and histograms). Pixel-based uncertainty estimates come along with all properties and are also propagated into Level-3C data. More details on the dataset can be found in Stengel et al. (2017) and in project documentation as listed below. Some examples are shown in Figure 1. |
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Figure 1 Top row: Examples of the Cloud_cci ATSR2-AATSR dataset, i.e. globally sampled, un-averaged retrieval data (Level-3U) for 2008/06/21: (a) Cloud top pressure, (b) Cloud effective radius, (c) Cloud type. Bottom row: Examples of the Cloud_cci ATSR2-AATSR dataset, i.e. monthly averaged data (Level-3C) for 2008/06: (d) Cloud top pressure, (e) Cloud effective radius, (f) Cloud fraction. |
Creators
Poulsen, Caroline1; McGarragh, Greg2; Thomas, Gareth1; Christensen, Matthew1; Povey, Adam2; Grainger, Don2; Proud, Simon2; Hollmann, Rainer3
1Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
2University of Oxford (UO)
3Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
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Citation
Poulsen, Caroline; McGarragh, Greg; Thomas, Gareth; Christensen, Matthew; Povey, Adam; Grainger, Don; Proud, Simon; Hollmann, Rainer (2017): ESA Cloud Climate Change Initiative (ESA Cloud_cci) data: Cloud_cci ATSR2-AATSR L3C/L3U/L2 CLD_PRODUCTS v2.0, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Dataset Producer), DOI:10.5676/DWD/ESA_Cloud_cci/ATSR2-AATSR/V002 |