Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5039-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5039-2019
Research article
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19 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 19 Sep 2019

Use of spectral cloud emissivities and their related uncertainties to infer ice cloud boundaries: methodology and assessment using CALIPSO cloud products

Hye-Sil Kim, Bryan A. Baum, and Yong-Sang Choi

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This study demonstrates that ice cloud emissivity uncertainties at 11, 12, and 13.3 µm can be used to provide a reasonable range of ice cloud layer boundaries. We test this methodology using MODIS Collection 6 cloud properties over the western North Pacific Ocean during August 2015. The cloud boundaries for single-layer optically thin ice clouds show good agreement with those from CALIOP version 4 products, with biases increasing for optically thick and multilayered clouds.