Validation of Copernicus Sentinel-3/OLCI Level 2 Land Integrated Water Vapour product

Kalakoski, Niilo; Sofieva, Viktoria F.; Preusker, René; Henocq, Claire; Denisselle, Matthieu; Dransfeld, Steffen; Scifoni, Silvia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5129-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5129-2022

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09 Sep 2022

Research article |

| 09 Sep 2022

Validation of Copernicus Sentinel-3/OLCI Level 2 Land Integrated Water Vapour product

Niilo Kalakoski, Viktoria F. Sofieva, René Preusker, Claire Henocq, Matthieu Denisselle, Steffen Dransfeld, and Silvia Scifoni

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Final revised paper (published on 09 Sep 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 29 Mar 2022)

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Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on amt-2022-103', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Apr 2022

Comments/Suggestions attached.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-103-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Niilo Kalakoski, 23 Jun 2022
  
  We thank the reviewer for careful reading and constructive comments. Please find the detailed answers to the comments in supplement.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-103-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on amt-2022-103', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Apr 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2022-103/amt-2022-103-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-103-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Niilo Kalakoski, 23 Jun 2022
  
  We thank the reviewer for the careful reading and constructive comments. Please find the detailed answers to comments in the supplement.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-103-AC2

Peer review completion

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

AR by Niilo Kalakoski on behalf of the Authors (27 Jun 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Jul 2022) by Daniel Perez-Ramirez

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Jul 2022)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (08 Jul 2022)

ED: Publish as is (09 Jul 2022) by Daniel Perez-Ramirez

Short summary

Geophysical validation of the Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) product from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) was performed against reference observations from SUOMINET and IGRA databases. Results for cloud-free matchups over land show a wet bias of 7 %–10 % for OLCI, with a high correlation against the reference observations (0.98 against SUOMINET and 0.90 against IGRA). Special attention is given to validation of uncertainty estimates and cloud flagging.