Variability of bulk water vapor content in the marine cloudy boundary layers from microwave and near-infrared imagery

Millán, Luis F.; Lebsock, Matthew D.; Teixeira, Joao

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8491-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8491-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8491-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

Research article

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04 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2019

Variability of bulk water vapor content in the marine cloudy boundary layers from microwave and near-infrared imagery

Luis F. Millán, Matthew D. Lebsock, and Joao Teixeira

Data sets

AMSR-MODIS Boundary Layer Water Va- por L3 Daily 1 degree × 1 degree V2 Luis Millán, Matt Lebsock, Evan Fishbein, Peter Kalmus, and Joao Teixeria https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/AMDBLWV2

AMSR-MODIS Boundary Layer Water Vapor L3 Monthly 1 degree × 1 degree V2 Luis Millán, Matt Lebsock, Evan Fishbein, Peter Kalmus, and Joao Teixeria https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/AMMBLWV2

Short summary

The synergy of the collocated Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides daily global estimates of marine boundary layer water vapor. AMSR provides the total column water vapor, while MODIS provides the water vapor above the cloud layers. The difference between the two gives the vapor between the surface and the cloud top, which may be interpreted as the boundary layer water vapor.