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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-973-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-973-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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08 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 08 Mar 2016
Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data
Thomas E. Taylor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Christopher W. O'Dell
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Christian Frankenberg
California Institute of Technology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Philip T. Partain
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Heather Q. Cronk
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Andrey Savtchenko
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610.2/ADNET, Greenbelt, MA, USA
Robert R. Nelson
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Emily J. Rosenthal
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Albert Y. Chang
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Brenden Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Gregory B. Osterman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Randy H. Pollock
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
David Crisp
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Annmarie Eldering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Michael R. Gunson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Short summary
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is providing approximately 1 million soundings per day of the total column of carbon dioxide (XCO2). The retrieval of XCO2 can only be performed for soundings sufficiently free of cloud and aerosol. This work highlights comparisons of OCO-2 cloud screening algorithms to the MODIS cloud mask product. We find agreement approximately 85 % of the time with some significant spatial and small seasonal dependencies.
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is providing approximately 1 million soundings per...
