APOLLO_NG &ndash; a probabilistic interpretation of the APOLLO legacy for AVHRR heritage channels

Klüser, L.; Killius, N.; Gesell, G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4155-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4155-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4155-2015

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

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

Research article

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12 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 12 Oct 2015

APOLLO_NG – a probabilistic interpretation of the APOLLO legacy for AVHRR heritage channels

L. Klüser, N. Killius, and G. Gesell

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Final revised paper (published on 12 Oct 2015)
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RC C1245: 'Review of `APOLLO_NG - A probabilistic interpretation of the APOLLO legacy for AVHRR heritage channels'', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 May 2015
- AC C1617: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Lars Klüser, 19 Jun 2015
RC C1463: 'Review of `APOLLO_NG - a probabilistic interpretation of the APOLLO legacy for AVHRR heritage channels'', Anonymous Referee #3, 08 Jun 2015
- AC C1622: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Lars Klüser, 19 Jun 2015

Short summary

The widely used cloud detection and retrieval scheme APOLLO (AVHRR Processing Over cLouds, Land and Ocean) has been used as the physical basis for a probabilistic formulation of the cloud detection and has been expanded by retrieval of additional cloud variables, like cloud effective radius. The paper introduces the metodology of the APOLLO_NextGeneration (APOLLO_NG) scheme as well as first applications to AVHRR and a short comparison of cloud detection results with the traditional APOLLO.