Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2121-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2121-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Data description paper
| 
09 Sep 2020
Data description paper |
| 09 Sep 2020
| 09 Sep 2020
Cloud_cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3: a 17-year climatology of global cloud and radiation properties
Caroline A. Poulsen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, 3800, Australia
Gregory R. McGarragh
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
now at: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Gareth E. Thomas
Science Technology Facility Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Martin Stengel
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Frankfurter Str. 135, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
Matthew W. Christensen
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon
Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
Adam C. Povey
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon
Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Simon R. Proud
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon
Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Elisa Carboni
Science Technology Facility Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Rainer Hollmann
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Frankfurter Str. 135, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
Roy G. Grainger
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon
Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Data sets
Cloud_cci AATSR/ATSR-2v3 C. A. Poulsen, G. R. Mcgarragh, G. E. Thomas, M. Stengel, M. W. Christiensen, A. C. Povey, S. R. Proud, E. Carboni, R. Hollmann, and R. G. Grainger https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD/ESA_Cloud_cci/ATSR2-AATSR/V003
Short summary
We have created a satellite cloud and radiation climatology from the ATSR-2 and AATSR on board ERS-2 and Envisat, respectively, which spans the period 1995–2012. The data set was created using a combination of optimal estimation and neural net techniques. The data set was created as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative program. The data set has been compared with active CALIOP lidar measurements and compared with MAC-LWP AND CERES-EBAF measurements and is shown to have good performance.
We have created a satellite cloud and radiation climatology from the ATSR-2 and AATSR on board...
