Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019
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18 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 18 Mar 2019

Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer

Mark Richardson, Jussi Leinonen, Heather Q. Cronk, James McDuffie, Matthew D. Lebsock, and Graeme L. Stephens

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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.