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Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3323-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3323-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Research article
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31 May 2024
Research article |  | 31 May 2024

Identification of ice-over-water multilayer clouds using multispectral satellite data in an artificial neural network

Sunny Sun-Mack, Patrick Minnis, Yan Chen, Gang Hong, and William L. Smith Jr.

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Multilayer clouds (MCs) affect the radiation budget differently than single-layer clouds (SCs) and need to be identified in satellite images. A neural network was trained to identify MCs by matching imagery with lidar/radar data. This method correctly identifies ~87 % SCs and MCs with a net accuracy gain of 7.5 % over snow-free surfaces. It is more accurate than most available methods and constitutes a first step in providing a reasonable 3-D characterization of the cloudy atmosphere.
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