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VISST
Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm
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Satellite-based retrievals of cloud and radiation properties are available in this value-added product provided by Bill Smith’s group at NASA/Langley using the VISST (Visible Infrared Solar-Infrared Split Window Technique) algorithm. These datastreams are both pixel-level (4-km) retrievals and averages on a 0.3 or 0.5 degree latitude-longitude grid and replace earlier satellite-based retrievals on the Layered Bispectral Threshold Method (LBTM).
Primary Derived Measurements
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric temperature
- Longwave narrowband brightness temperature
- Cloud effective radius
- Cloud fraction
- Cloud location
- Cloud optical depth
- Cloud base height
- Cloud phase
- Cloud top height
- Hydrometeor size
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Longwave broadband net irradiance
- Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total net irradiance
- Shortwave spectral total downwelling irradiance
- Liquid water path
- Longwave narrowband radiance
- Shortwave broadband radiance
- Shortwave narrowband radiance
- Surface albedo
Contact
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References
View all references- Mccoy et al. "Aitken Mode Aerosols Buffer Decoupled Mid‐Latitude Boundary Layer Clouds against Precipitation Depletion". 2024. 10.1029/2023JD039572.
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