Evaluation of the MODIS Collection 6 multilayer cloud detection algorithm through comparisons with CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar and CALIPSO CALIOP products

Marchant, Benjamin; Platnick, Steven; Meyer, Kerry; Wind, Galina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3263-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3263-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3263-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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19 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 19 Jun 2020

Evaluation of the MODIS Collection 6 multilayer cloud detection algorithm through comparisons with CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar and CALIPSO CALIOP products

Benjamin Marchant, Steven Platnick, Kerry Meyer, and Galina Wind

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RC1: 'comments on paper', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Feb 2020
- AC1: 'Anonymous Referee #2 (Answers):', Benjamin Marchant, 17 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Referee Comment on Marchant et al., 2020', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Feb 2020
- AC2: 'Anonymous Referee #3 (Answers)', Benjamin Marchant, 17 Apr 2020
RC3: 'Review of amt-2019-448', Anonymous Referee #4, 25 Feb 2020
- AC3: 'Anonymous Referee #4 (Answers)', Benjamin Marchant, 18 Apr 2020
SC1: 'A short comment on the manuscript', Jianjie Wang, 17 Mar 2020
- AC4: 'Comment', Benjamin Marchant, 05 May 2020

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AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (08 May 2020) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

Short summary

Multilayer cloud scenes (such as an ice cloud overlapping a liquid cloud) are common in the Earth's atmosphere and are quite difficult to detect from space. The detection of multilayer clouds is important to better understand how they interact with the light and their impact on the climate. So, for the instrument MODIS an algorithm has been developed to detect those clouds, and this paper presents an evaluation of this algorithm by comparing it with other instruments.