Comparing ERA-Interim clouds with satellite observations using a simplified satellite simulator

Stengel, Martin; Schlundt, Cornelia; Stapelberg, Stefan; Sus, Oliver; Eliasson, Salomon; Willén, Ulrika; Meirink, Jan Fokke

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17601-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17601-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17601-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

Research article

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12 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 12 Dec 2018

Comparing ERA-Interim clouds with satellite observations using a simplified satellite simulator

Martin Stengel, Cornelia Schlundt, Stefan Stapelberg, Oliver Sus, Salomon Eliasson, Ulrika Willén, and Jan Fokke Meirink

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RC1: 'Review of Stengel et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Authors’ response to RC1 - Anonymous Referee #1', Martin Stengel, 25 Sep 2018
RC2: 'accepted', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Authors' response to RC2 - Anonymous Referee #2', Martin Stengel, 25 Sep 2018

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AR by Martin Stengel on behalf of the Authors (26 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Sep 2018) by Hailong Wang

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (01 Nov 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Nov 2018) by Hailong Wang

AR by Martin Stengel on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Nov 2018) by Hailong Wang

AR by Martin Stengel on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2018)

Short summary

We present a new approach to evaluate ERA-Interim reanalysis clouds using satellite observations. A simplified satellite simulator was developed that uses reanalysis fields to emulate clouds as they would have been seen by those satellite sensors which were used to compose Cloud_cci observational cloud datasets. Our study facilitates an adequate evaluation of modelled ERA-Interim clouds using observational datasets, also taking into account systematic uncertainties in the observations.