Increasing the spatial resolution of cloud property retrievals from Meteosat SEVIRI by use of its high-resolution visible channel: evaluation of candidate approaches with MODIS observations

Werner, Frank; Deneke, Hartwig

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1089-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1089-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1089-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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06 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 06 Mar 2020

Increasing the spatial resolution of cloud property retrievals from Meteosat SEVIRI by use of its high-resolution visible channel: evaluation of candidate approaches with MODIS observations

Frank Werner and Hartwig Deneke

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RC1: 'Interesting manuscript and results, but presentation has to receive major revision and tightening', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer #1', Frank Werner, 23 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript by Werner and Deneke', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer #2', Frank Werner, 23 Dec 2019

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AR by Frank Werner on behalf of the Authors (23 Dec 2019) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Jan 2020) by Sebastian Schmidt

AR by Frank Werner on behalf of the Authors (31 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The reliability of remotely sensed cloud variables from space depends on the horizontal resolution of the instrument. This study presents and evaluates several candidate approaches for increasing the spatial resolution of observations from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) from the native 3 km scale to a horizontal resolution of 1 km. It is shown that uncertainties in the derived cloud products can be significantly mitigated by applying an appropriate downscaling scheme.