Screening for snow/snowmelt in SNPP VIIRS aerosol optical depth algorithm

Huang, Jingfeng; Laszlo, Istvan; Remer, Lorraine A.; Liu, Hongqing; Zhang, Hai; Ciren, Pubu; Kondragunta, Shobha

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5813-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5813-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5813-2018

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

Research article

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23 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 23 Oct 2018

Screening for snow/snowmelt in SNPP VIIRS aerosol optical depth algorithm

Jingfeng Huang, Istvan Laszlo, Lorraine A. Remer, Hongqing Liu, Hai Zhang, Pubu Ciren, and Shobha Kondragunta

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Oct 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 May 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Responses To Reviewer #1's Comments', Jingfeng Huang, 19 Aug 2018
RC2: 'New snow mask for VIIRS AOD retrieval', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jun 2018
- AC3: 'Responses To Reviewer #3's Comments', Jingfeng Huang, 19 Aug 2018
RC3: 'Review comments for "Screening for Snow/Snowmelt in SNPP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Depth Algorithm"', Anonymous Referee #4, 21 Jun 2018
- AC4: 'Responses To Reviewer #4's Comments', Jingfeng Huang, 19 Aug 2018
RC4: 'Review comments for "Screening for Snow/Snowmelt in SNPP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Depth Algorithm"', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Responses To Reviewer #2's Comments', Jingfeng Huang, 19 Aug 2018

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Jingfeng Huang on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Sep 2018) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Jingfeng Huang on behalf of the Authors (17 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

A new snow/snowmelt screening approach – combining a normalized difference snow index (NDSI)- and brightness temperature (BT)-based snow test, snow adjacency test and spatial filter – is proposed to significantly reduce the snow/snowmelt contamination in the NOAA’s operational Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aerosol optical depth (AOD) product, particularly over Northern Hemisphere high-latitude regions during spring thaw.