Scale dependence of cirrus horizontal heterogeneity effects on TOA measurements – Part I: MODIS brightness temperatures in the thermal infrared

Fauchez, Thomas; Platnick, Steven; Meyer, Kerry; Cornet, Céline; Szczap, Frédéric; Várnai, Tamás

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 13

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 8489–8508, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 8489–8508, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 13

Research article 13 Jul 2017

Research article | 13 Jul 2017

Scale dependence of cirrus horizontal heterogeneity effects on TOA measurements – Part I: MODIS brightness temperatures in the thermal infrared

Thomas Fauchez et al.

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RC1: 'Interactive comment on " Scale dependence of cirrus heterogeneity effects. Part I: MODIS thermal infrared channels" by T. Fauchez et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to anonymous referee #1', Thomas Fauchez, 16 May 2017
RC2: 'Anonymous review', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Mar 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to anonymous referee #2', Thomas Fauchez, 16 May 2017

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AR by Thomas Fauchez on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 May 2017) by Johannes Quaas

Short summary

This study presents impact of cirrus cloud horizontal heterogeneity on simulated thermal infrared brightness temperatures at the top of the atmosphere for spatial resolutions ranging from 50 m to 10 km. The cirrus is generated by the 3DCLOUD code and the radiative transfer by the 3DMCPOL code. Brightness temperatures are mostly impacted by the horizontal transport effect and plane-parallel bias at high and coarse spatial resolutions, respectively, with a minimum around 100 m–250 m.