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Articles | Volume 17, issue 13
Articles | Volume 17, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 13
Research article
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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, Steven Platnick, Kerry Meyer, Céline Cornet, Frédéric Szczap, and Tamás Várnai

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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.
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