Dust aerosol impact on the retrieval of cloud top height from satellite observations of CALIPSO, CloudSat and MODIS

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• 作者：Wencai Wang^a ; ^{wangwc@ouc.edu.cn} ; Lifang Sheng^a ; Xu Dong^b ; Wenjun Qu^a ; Jilin Sun^a ; Hongchun Jin^c ; Timothy Logan^d
• 关键词：Dust ; Cloud top height ; Satellite
• 刊名：Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：188
• 期：Complete
• 页码：132-141
• 全文大小：1953 K
• 卷排序：188

文摘

Dust aerosols have effects on the determination of dusty cloud top height. Dusty cloud top height retrievals by active and passive sensors are dependent on cloud type. MODIS retrieval dusty cloud top heights disagree significantly with CALIPSO and CloudSat. The accuracy of MODIS-derived retrievals reduces accompanied with a decrease of height.