Information content of OCO-2 oxygen A-band channels for retrieving marine liquid cloud properties

Richardson, Mark; Stephens, Graeme L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1515-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1515-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1515-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

Research article

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16 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 16 Mar 2018

Information content of OCO-2 oxygen A-band channels for retrieving marine liquid cloud properties

Mark Richardson and Graeme L. Stephens

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Final revised paper (published on 16 Mar 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 04 Oct 2017)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Please find attached my report', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1 (please see attached supplement)', Mark Richardson, 08 Jan 2018
RC2: 'attached please find my report', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2 (please see attached supplement)', Mark Richardson, 08 Jan 2018
RC3: 'Review comments on manuscript “Information content of OCO-2 oxygen A-band channels for retrieving marine liquid cloud properties”', Anonymous Referee #3, 24 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer 3 (please see attached supplement)', Mark Richardson, 08 Jan 2018
RC4: 'review for AMT-2017-314', Anonymous Referee #4, 30 Oct 2017
- AC4: 'Response to reviewer 4 (please see attached supplement)', Mark Richardson, 08 Jan 2018

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Mark Richardson on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2018) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Mark Richardson on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2018)

Short summary

This study analyses how much information can be obtained about liquid clouds over oceans using measurements of reflected sunlight by the OCO-2 satellite. We find that using 75 of the 853 functioning oxygen A-band channels is sufficient to retrieve cloud optical depth, and the height and thickness of the cloud in terms of atmospheric pressure coordinates, to better than 3 hPa.