Quality assessment and improvement of the EUMETSAT Meteosat Surface Albedo Climate Data Record

Lattanzio, A.; Fell, F.; Bennartz, R.; Trigo, I. F.; Schulz, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4561-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4561-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4561-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

Research article

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30 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 30 Oct 2015

Quality assessment and improvement of the EUMETSAT Meteosat Surface Albedo Climate Data Record

A. Lattanzio, F. Fell, R. Bennartz, I. F. Trigo, and J. Schulz

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Final revised paper (published on 30 Oct 2015)
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RC C2213: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Jul 2015
- AC C3258: 'Answer to Reviewer 2', Alessio Lattanzio, 12 Oct 2015
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Short summary

EUMETSAT has generated a surface albedo data set climate data record, spanning over more than 2 decades, from measurements acquired by Meteosat First Generation satellites. EUMETSAT coordinated a study for the validation of such a data record. In the validation report, the full set of results, including comparison with in situ measurements and satellites, was presented. A method of increasing the quality of the data set, removing cloud-contaminated pixels, is presented.