Comparison of the cloud top heights retrieved from MODIS and AHI satellite data with ground-based Ka-band radar

Huo, Juan; Lu, Daren; Duan, Shu; Bi, Yongheng; Liu, Bo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

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02 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 02 Jan 2020

Comparison of the cloud top heights retrieved from MODIS and AHI satellite data with ground-based Ka-band radar

Juan Huo, Daren Lu, Shu Duan, Yongheng Bi, and Bo Liu

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

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RC1: 'Referee comment (N. Håkansson)', Nina Håkansson, 12 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Replies to comments from Referee # 1 (Nina Håkansson)', Juan Huo, 29 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Comparison of the cloud top heights retrieved from MODIS and AHI satellite data with ground-based Ka-band radar”', Ulrich Hamann, 19 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Replies to comments from Referee # 2 (Ulrich Hamann)', Juan Huo, 29 Sep 2019
AC3: 'Revised manuscript', Juan Huo, 29 Sep 2019

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

AR by Juan Huo on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Nov 2019) by Piet Stammes

AR by Juan Huo on behalf of the Authors (07 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Nov 2019) by Piet Stammes

AR by Juan Huo on behalf of the Authors (25 Nov 2019)

Short summary

Cloud top height (CTH) is one of the important cloud parameters providing information about the vertical structure of cloud water content. To better understand the accuracy of CTH derived from passive satellite data, 2 years of ground-based Ka-band radar measurements are compared with CTH inferred from Terra/Aqua MODIS and Himawari AHI. It is found that MODIS and AHI underestimate CTH relative to radar by −1.10 km. Both MODIS and AHI CTH retrieval accuracy depend strongly on cloud depth.