Broadband radiative quantities for the EarthCARE mission: the ACM-COM and ACM-RT products

Cole, Jason N. S.; Barker, Howard W.; Qu, Zhipeng; Villefranque, Najda; Shephard, Mark W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-4271-2023

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EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products

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25 Sep 2023

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Broadband radiative quantities for the EarthCARE mission: the ACM-COM and ACM-RT products

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

Data sets

Enhanced 3D radiative transfer ACM-RT calculations and output for Cole et al., 2022 Jason N. S. Cole, Howard W. Barker, Zhipeng Qu, Najda Villefranque, and Mark W. Shephard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7272662

EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes G.-J. van Zadelhoff, H. W. Barker, E. Baudrez, S. Bley, N. Clerbaux, J. N. S. Cole, J. de Kloe, N. Docter, C. Domenech, D. P. Donovan, J.-L. Dufresne, M. Eisinger, J. Fischer, R. García-Marañón, M. Haarig, R. J. Hogan, A. Hünerbein, P. Kollias, R. Koopman, and T. Wehr https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7117116

Short summary

Measurements from the EarthCARE satellite mission will be used to retrieve profiles of cloud and aerosol properties. These retrievals are combined with auxiliary information about surface properties and atmospheric state, e.g., temperature and water vapor. This information allows computation of 1D and 3D solar and thermal radiative transfer for small domains, which are compared with coincident radiometer observations to continually assess EarthCARE retrievals.