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Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1531-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1531-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Research article
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12 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 12 Mar 2019

Detecting cloud contamination in passive microwave satellite measurements over land

Samuel Favrichon, Catherine Prigent, Carlos Jimenez, and Filipe Aires

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Land surface parameters (such as temperature) can be extracted from passive microwave satellite observations, with less cloud contamination than in the infrared. A cloud contamination index is proposed to detect cloud contamination for multiple frequency ranges (from 10 to 190 GHz), to be applicable to the successive generations of MW instruments. Even with a reduced number of low-frequency channels over land, the index reaches an accuracy of ≥ 70 % in detecting contaminated observations.
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