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Fig. 5 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 5

From: Theoretical basis of the algorithms and early phase results of the GCOM-C (Shikisai) SGLI cloud products

Fig. 5

The most frequent cloud phases as a function of the brightness temperature (Tb) of the 10.8-μm channel and the difference between the brightness temperatures of the 10.8- and 12-μm channels extracted by a combined use of CloudSat CLDCLASS-LIDAR and MODIS-AUX products. The color represents most frequent cloud phases: the cloud-phase flag is set to “ICE” if Tb (10.8 μm) – Tb (12.0 μm) > 0.08 Tb (10.8 μm) – 21 and Tb (10.8 μm) < 265 K, whereas this flag is set to “LIQ” if Tb (10.8 μm) − Tb (12.0 μm) < 0.08 Tb (10.8 μm) − 21, and the other flags are labeled as “MUL”

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