Ground-based imaging remote sensing of ice clouds: uncertainties caused by sensor, method and atmosphere

Zinner, Tobias; Hausmann, Petra; Ewald, Florian; Bugliaro, Luca; Emde, Claudia; Mayer, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

Research article

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20 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 20 Sep 2016

Ground-based imaging remote sensing of ice clouds: uncertainties caused by sensor, method and atmosphere

Tobias Zinner, Petra Hausmann, Florian Ewald, Luca Bugliaro, Claudia Emde, and Bernhard Mayer

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016-supplement

Data sets

Meteosat data EUMETSAT http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/DataDelivery/index.html

MODIS Atmosphere L2 Cloud Product (06 L2) S. Platnick, S. Ackerman, and M. E. A. King https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD06_L2.006

Short summary

A new retrieval of optical thickness and effective particle size of ice clouds over a wide range of optical thickness from transmittance measurements is presented. A visible range spectral slope is used to resolve the transmittance optical thickness ambiguity. Retrieval sensitivity to ice crystal habit, aerosol, albedo, sensor accuracy and lookup table interpolation is presented as well as an application of the method and comparison to satellite products for 2 days.