FRESCO-B: a fast cloud retrieval algorithm using oxygen B-band measurements from GOME-2
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Published:2019-04-23
Issue:4
Volume:12
Page:2485-2498
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ISSN:1867-8548
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Container-title:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Atmos. Meas. Tech.
Author:
Desmons Marine,Wang Ping,Stammes Piet,Tilstra L. Gijsbert
Abstract
Abstract. The FRESCO (Fast Retrieval Scheme for Clouds from the Oxygen A band)
algorithm is a simple, fast and robust algorithm used to retrieve cloud
information in operational satellite data processing. It has been applied to
GOME-1 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment), SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging
Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography), GOME-2 and more
recently to TROPOMI (Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument). FRESCO retrieves
effective cloud fraction and cloud pressure from measurements in the oxygen A
band around 761 nm. In this paper, we propose a new version of the
algorithm, called FRESCO-B, which is based on measurements in the oxygen B
band around 687 nm. Such a method is interesting for vegetated
surfaces where the surface albedo is much lower in the B band than in the A
band, which limits the ground contribution to the top-of-atmosphere
reflectances. In this study we first perform retrieval simulations. These
show that the retrieved cloud pressures from FRESCO-B and FRESCO differ only
between −10 and +10 hPa, except for high, thin clouds over
vegetation where the difference is larger (about +15 to +30 hPa),
with FRESCO-B yielding higher pressure. Next, inter-comparison between
FRESCO-B and FRESCO retrievals over 1 month of GOME-2B data reveals that the
effective cloud fractions retrieved in the O2 A and B bands are
very similar (mean difference of 0.003), while the cloud pressures show a
mean difference of 11.5 hPa, with FRESCO-B retrieving higher
pressures than FRESCO. This agrees with the simulations and is partly due to
deeper photon penetrations of the O2 B band in clouds compared to
the O2 A-band photons and partly due to the surface albedo bias in
FRESCO. Finally, validation with ground-based measurements shows that the
FRESCO-B cloud pressure represents an altitude within the cloud boundaries
for clouds that are not too far from the Lambertian reflector model, which
occurs in about 50 % of the cases.
Funder
Netherlands Space Office
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Atmospheric Science
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