SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its impact on GloSSAC

Kovilakam, Mahesh; Thomason, Larry; Knepp, Travis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2709-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2709-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2709-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

Research article

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01 Jun 2023

Research article |

| 01 Jun 2023

SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its impact on GloSSAC

Mahesh Kovilakam, Larry Thomason, and Travis Knepp

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2709-2023-supplement

Data sets

OSIRIS level 2 ARG University of Saskatchewan https://arg.usask.ca/docs/osiris_v7/index.html

Global Space-based Strato- spheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.2 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/GLOSSAC-L3-V2.2

Short summary

The paper describes SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its implications on Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology (GloSSAC). The presence of data from the SAGE type of multi-wavelength measurements is important in GloSSAC. The new aerosol/cloud categorization method described in this paper will help retain more measurements, particularly in the lower stratosphere during and following a volcanic event and other processes.