Shortwave Radiative Effect of Arctic Low-Level Clouds: Evaluation of Imagery-Derived Irradiance with Aircraft Observations

• Main Authors: Chen, Hong, Schmidt, Sebastian, King, Michael D., Wind, Galina, Bucholtz, Anthony, Reid, Elizabeth A., Segal-Rozenhaimer, Michal, Smith, William L., Taylor, Patrick C., Kato, Seiji, Pilewskie, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Merra; albedo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-344; https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2019-344/

Cloud optical properties such as optical thickness along with surface albedo are important inputs for deriving the shortwave radiative effects of clouds from space-borne remote sensing. Owing to insufficient knowledge about the snow or ice surface in the Arctic, cloud detection and the retrieval pro...