The classification of atmospheric hydrometeors and aerosols from the EarthCARE radar and lidar: the A-TC, C-TC and AC-TC products

Irbah, Abdanour; Delanoë, Julien; van Zadelhoff, Gerd-Jan; Donovan, David P.; Kollias, Pavlos; Puigdomènech Treserras, Bernat; Mason, Shannon; Hogan, Robin J.; Tatarevic, Aleksandra

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2795-2023

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EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products

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The classification of atmospheric hydrometeors and aerosols from the EarthCARE radar and lidar: the A-TC, C-TC and AC-TC products

Abdanour Irbah, Julien Delanoë, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, David P. Donovan, Pavlos Kollias, Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras, Shannon Mason, Robin J. Hogan, and Aleksandra Tatarevic

Data sets

EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Howard W. Barker, Edward Baudrez, Sebastian Bley, Nicolas Clerbaux, Jason N. S. Cole, Jos de Kloe, Nicole Docter, Carlos Domenech, David P. Donovan, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Michael Eisinger, Juergen Fischer, Raquel García-Marañón, Moritz Haarig, Robin J. Hogan, Anja Hünerbein, Pavlos Kollias, Rob Koopman, Nils Madenach, Shannon L. Mason, Rene Preusker, Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras, Zhipeng Qu, Manuel Ruiz-Saldaña, Mark Shephard, Almudena Velázquez-Blazquez, Najda Villefranque, Ulla Wandinger, Ping Wang, and Tobias Wehr https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7728948

Short summary

The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) and ATmospheric LIDar (ATLID) aboard the EarthCARE satellite are used to probe the Earth's atmosphere by measuring cloud and aerosol profiles. ATLID is sensitive to aerosols and small cloud particles and CPR to large ice particles, snowflakes and raindrops. It is the synergy of the measurements of these two instruments that allows a better classification of the atmospheric targets and the description of the associated products, which are the subject of this paper.