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Research article
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18 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 18 Mar 2019
| 18 Mar 2019
Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System
Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA 90095, USA
Jussi Leinonen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Heather Q. Cronk
Cooperative Institute for Research in the
Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
James McDuffie
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Matthew D. Lebsock
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Graeme L. Stephens
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6BB,
UK
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Short summary
We retrieve cloud properties, including geometric thickness, by combining hyperspectral Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) A-band measurements with CALIPSO lidar. This uses cloudy scene data that are not used in OCO-2's main mission, which is aimed at clear-sky atmospheric CO2 abundance. This is the first retrieval using such hyperspectral information and promises to provide a unique constraint on the properties of low liquid clouds over the ocean.
We retrieve cloud properties, including geometric thickness, by combining hyperspectral Orbiting...
