Determination of the cloud fraction in the SCIAMACHY ground scene using MERIS spectral measurements

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6151-6167

  Kokhanovsky, A A ^a   von Hoyningen Huene, W ^a   Burrows, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INFRARED DEVICES; MAPS; PIXELS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERED RADIATION; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CARTOGRAPHIES (SCIAMACHY); VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

SPECTROMETERS;

AEROSOL; CARBON CYCLE; CLOUD; ENVISAT-1; MERIS; OCEAN COLOR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

PRENANTHELLA EXIGUA;

EID: 77449107597     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902842326     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. BEZY, J.L., DELWART, S. and RAST, M., 2000, MERIS - a new generation of ocean colour sensor onboard ENVISAT. ESA Bulletin, 103, pp. 48-56.
2. BOVENSMANN, H., BURROWS, J.P., BUCHWITZ, M., FRERICK, J., NOËL, S., ROZANOV, V.V., CHANCE, K.V. and GOEDE, A.H.P., 1999, SCIAMACHY: mission objectives and measurement modes. Journal of Atmospheric Science, 56, pp. 127-150.
3. DELWART, S., BOURG, L. and HOUT, J.P., 2004, MERIS 1st year: early calibration results. Proceedings of SPIE, 5234, pp. 379-390.
4. GRZEGORSKI, M., WENIG, M., PLATT, U., STAMMES, P., FOURNIER, N. and WAGNER, T., 2006, The Heidelberg iterative cloud retrieval utilities (HICRU) and its application to GOME data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, pp. 4461-4476.
5. KOELEMEIJER, R.B.A., STAMMES, P., HOVENIER, J.W. and DE HAAN, J.F., 2002, Global distributions of effective cloud fraction and cloud top pressure derived from oxygen A-band spectra measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment: comparison to ISCCP data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD000840.
6. KOKHANOVSKY, A.A., ROZANOV, V.V., BURROWS, J.P., EICHMANN, K.-U., LOTZ, W., and VOUNTAS, M., 2005, The SCIAMACHY cloud products: algorithms and examples from ENVISAT. Advanced Space Research, 36, pp. 789-799.
7. KOKHANOVSKY, A.A., MAYER, B., ROZANOV, V.V., WAPLER, K., LAMSAL, L.N., WEBER, M., BURROWS, J.P., and SCHUMANN, U., 2007, Satellite ozone retrieval under broken cloud conditions: an error analysis based on Monte-Carlo simulations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45, pp. 187-194.
8. LOYOLA, D., 200, Cloud retrieval for SCIAMACHY. In Proceedings of ERS-ENVISAT Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-20 October 2000.
9. LOYOLA, D., 2004, Automatic cloud analysis from polar-orbiting satellites using neural network and data fusion techniques. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 4, pp. 2530-2534.
10. ROZANOV, A.A., ROZANOV, V.V., BUCHWITZ, M., KOKHANOVSKY, A.A. and BURROWS, J.P., 2005, SCIATRAN 2.0 - a new radiative transfer model for geophysical applications in the 175-2400 nm spectral region. Advanced Space Research, 36, pp. 1015-1019.
11. ROZANOV, V. V., KOKHANOVSKY, A.A., LOYOLA, D., SIDDANS, R., LATTER, B., STEVENS, A. and BURROWS, J.P., 2006, Intercomparison of cloud top altitudes as derived using GOME and ATSR-2 instruments onboard ENVISAT. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102, pp. 186-193.
12. TUINDER, O.N.E., DE WINTER-SORKINA, R. and BUILTJES, P.J.H., 2004, Retrieval methods of effective cloud cover from the GOME instrument: an intercomparison. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4, pp. 255-273.