Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1841-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1841-2019
Research article
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20 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 20 Mar 2019

Cloud base height retrieval from multi-angle satellite data

Christoph Böhm, Odran Sourdeval, Johannes Mülmenstädt, Johannes Quaas, and Susanne Crewell

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Short summary
The cloud base height (CBH) is important for air traffic, for describing the energy budget of the Earth and for other applications. Ground-based CBH measurements are only available for individual sites and mostly limited to land. Satellites are a powerful tool for global coverage. While the cloud top height is derived operationally, the derivation of CBH from space is more difficult as the clouds hide their base. Here, we present a method to retrieve the CBH from multi-angle satellite data.