Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2319-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2319-2023
Research article
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04 May 2023
Research article |  | 04 May 2023

Across-track extension of retrieved cloud and aerosol properties for the EarthCARE mission: the ACMB-3D product

Zhipeng Qu, Howard W. Barker, Jason N. S. Cole, and Mark W. Shephard

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Barker, H. W., Cole, J. N. S., Domenech, C., Shephard, M., Sioris, C., Tornow, F., and Wehr, T.: Assessing the Quality of Active-Passive Satellite Retrievals using Broadband Radiances, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 141, 1294–1305, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2438, 2015. 
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This paper describes EarthCARE’s L2 product ACM-3D. It includes the scene construction algorithm (SCA) used to produce the indexes for reconstructing 3D atmospheric scene based on satellite nadir retrievals. It also provides the information about the buffer zone sizes of 3D assessment domains and the ranking scores for selecting the best 3D assessment domains. These output variables are needed to run 3D radiative transfer models for the radiative closure assessment of EarthCARE’s L2 retrievals.