Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3627-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3627-2018
Research article
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25 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 25 Jun 2018

Cloud heterogeneity on cloud and aerosol above cloud properties retrieved from simulated total and polarized reflectances

Céline Cornet, Laurent C.-Labonnote, Fabien Waquet, Frédéric Szczap, Lucia Deaconu, Frédéric Parol, Claudine Vanbauce, François Thieuleux, and Jérôme Riédi

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Simulations of total and polarized cloud reflectance angular signatures such as the ones measured by the multi-angular and polarized radiometer POLDER3/PARASOL are used to evaluate cloud heterogeneity effects on cloud parameter retrievals. Effects on optical thickness, albedo of the cloudy scenes, effective radius and variance of the cloud droplet size distribution, cloud top pressure and aerosol above cloud are analyzed.