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Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2787-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2787-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Research article
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28 Apr 2026
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2026

Assessing Earth's sphericity effects in the specific case of geostationary satellite observations: focus on operational land/aerosol applications from Meteosat Third Generation-Imager

Gloria Klein, Xavier Ceamanos, Jérôme Vidot, Didier Ramon, and Mustapha Moulana

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This work investigates the impact of the Earth's sphericity on geostationary satellite observations, particularly in the context of the operational estimation of aerosol and land surface properties from the Meteosat Third Generation-Imager's Flexible Combined Imager. We demonstrate that the plane-parallel approximation widely used in fast radiative transfer codes can introduce significant biases in certain situations, mainly depending on the observing geometry and wavelength.
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