Cloud optical and physical properties retrieval from EarthCARE multi-spectral imager: the M-COP products

Hünerbein, Anja; Bley, Sebastian; Deneke, Hartwig; Meirink, Jan Fokke; van Zadelhoff, Gerd-Jan; Walther, Andi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-261-2024

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EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products

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16 Jan 2024

Research article |

| 16 Jan 2024

Cloud optical and physical properties retrieval from EarthCARE multi-spectral imager: the M-COP products

Anja Hünerbein, Sebastian Bley, Hartwig Deneke, Jan Fokke Meirink, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, and Andi Walther

Data sets

Level-1 and Atmospheric Data, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA LAADS DAAC https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov

MODIS 1km Calibrated Radiances Product MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST) https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD021KM.061

MODIS atmosphere L2 cloud product (06_L2) S. Platnick, S. A. Ackerman, M. D. King, K. Meyer, W. P. Menzel, R. E. Holz, B. A. Baum, and P. Yang https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD06_L2.006

MODIS atmosphere L2 cloud product (06_L2) S. Platnick, S. A. Ackerman, M. D. King, K. Meyer, W. P. Menzel, R. E. Holz, B. A. Baum, and P. Yang https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD06_L2.006

EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes (10.10) 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, N. Madenach, S. L. Mason, R. Preusker, B. Puigdomènech Treserras, Z. Qu, M. Ruiz-Saldaña, M. Shephard, A. Velázquez-Blazquez, N. Villefranque, U. Wandinger, P. Wang, and T. Wehr https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7728948

Short summary

The ESA cloud, aerosol and radiation mission EarthCARE will provide active profiling and passive imaging measurements from a single satellite platform. The passive multi-spectral imager (MSI) will add information in the across-track direction. We present the cloud optical and physical properties algorithm, which combines the visible to infrared MSI channels to determine the cloud top pressure, optical thickness, particle size and water path.