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Fig. 8 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 8

From: Retrieval of radiative and microphysical properties of clouds from multispectral infrared measurements

Fig. 8

A test case of tropical cloud systems over the ocean north of New Guinea. The MODIS granule is taken at 3:55–4:00 UTC on April 1, 2007. a, b False color image with band combinations of MODIS bands. a Reflectances in bands 6, 2, and 31 and b BTD between bands 29 and 31 and BTs of 32 and 31 for the red, green, and blue channels. Yellow lines in a and b denote the ground track of CloudSat and CALIPSO satellite. c Comparison of retrieved CTHs with cloud mask data obtained from CloudSat radar and CALIPSO lidar measurements. Blue denotes clouds detected by radar only (RO), green by lidar only (LO), yellow by both radar and lidar (RAL), and orange denotes missing data (Miss). The scattered crosses show the location of the ICAS cloud top at the respective longitude, where black crosses represent cloud top of the first layer and red crosses represent cloud top of the second layer

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