Sensitivity of PARASOL multi-angle photopolarimetric aerosol retrievals to cloud contamination

Stap, F. A.; Hasekamp, O. P.; Röckmann, T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1287-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1287–1301, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1287-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1287–1301, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1287-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Research article 17 Mar 2015

Research article | 17 Mar 2015

Sensitivity of PARASOL multi-angle photopolarimetric aerosol retrievals to cloud contamination

F. A. Stap et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Mar 2015)
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RC C3985: 'Review of “Sensitivity of PARASOL multi-angle photo-polarimetric aerosol retrievals to cloud contamination” by F.A. Stap et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Nov 2014
- AC C4568: 'Response comments Anonymous referee #2', Frans Arjen Stap, 14 Jan 2015
RC C4634: 'Review of Sensitivity of PARASOL multi-angle photo-polarimetric aerosol retrievals to cloud contamination', B. Cairns, 20 Jan 2015
- AC C4974: 'Response comments referee #1', Frans Arjen Stap, 26 Feb 2015

Short summary

We present the capability of an aerosol retrieval algorithm, intended for multi-angle, multi-wavelength photopolarimetric measurements, to intrinsically screen for sub-pixel liquid water cloud contamination. The screening is based on goodness-of-fit criteria. The algorithm has been applied to a synthetic data set of partially clouded scenes and (non-cloud-screened) POLDER3/PARASOL observations.