Differences in liquid cloud droplet effective radius and number concentration estimates between MODIS collections 5.1 and 6 over global oceans

Rausch, John; Meyer, Kerry; Bennartz, Ralf; Platnick, Steven

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2105-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2105-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2105-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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08 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 08 Jun 2017

Differences in liquid cloud droplet effective radius and number concentration estimates between MODIS collections 5.1 and 6 over global oceans

John Rausch, Kerry Meyer, Ralf Bennartz, and Steven Platnick

Data sets

Cloud Droplet Number Concentration from MODIS Collections 5.1 and 6 for 2008 J. Rausch and R. Bennartz https://doi.org/10.15695/vudata.ees.2

Short summary

This paper documents the observed differences in the aggregated (Level-3) cloud droplet effective radius and droplet number concentration estimates inferred from the Aqua–MODIS cloud product collections 5.1 and 6 for warm oceanic cloud scenes over the year 2008. We note significant differences in effective radius and droplet concentration between the two products and discuss the algorithmic and calibration changes which may contribute to observed results.