Cloud<i>_</i>cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3: a 17-year climatology of global cloud and radiation properties

Poulsen, Caroline A.; McGarragh, Gregory R.; Thomas, Gareth E.; Stengel, Martin; Christensen, Matthew W.; Povey, Adam C.; Proud, Simon R.; Carboni, Elisa; Hollmann, Rainer; Grainger, Roy G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2121-2020

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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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2121-2020

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Data description paper

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09 Sep 2020

Data description paper |

| 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, Gregory R. McGarragh, Gareth E. Thomas, Martin Stengel, Matthew W. Christensen, Adam C. Povey, Simon R. Proud, Elisa Carboni, Rainer Hollmann, and Roy G. Grainger

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review Comments for essd-2019-217', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Refeere 1', Caroline Poulsen, 12 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Useful description of update to cloud and flux data set', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Caroline Poulsen, 12 Jun 2020
RC3: 'Referee Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jan 2020
- AC3: 'Response to referee3', Caroline Poulsen, 12 Jun 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Caroline Poulsen on behalf of the Authors (06 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (15 Jul 2020) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Caroline Poulsen on behalf of the Authors (16 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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.