Articles | Volume 17, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6345-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6345-2024
Research article
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30 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2024

An advanced spatial coregistration of cloud properties for the atmospheric Sentinel missions: application to TROPOMI

Athina Argyrouli, Diego Loyola, Fabian Romahn, Ronny Lutz, Víctor Molina García, Pascal Hedelt, Klaus-Peter Heue, and Richard Siddans

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CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Cloud Layer NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05KMCLAY-STANDARD-V4-20

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This paper describes a new treatment of the spatial misregistration of cloud properties for Sentinel-5 Precursor, when the footprints of different spectral bands are not perfectly aligned. The methodology exploits synergies between spectrometers and imagers, like TROPOMI and VIIRS. The largest improvements have been identified for heterogeneous scenes at cloud edges. This approach is generic and can also be applied to future Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 instruments.