Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1-2022
Model experiment description paper
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04 Jan 2022
Model experiment description paper |  | 04 Jan 2022

Analysis of the MODIS above-cloud aerosol retrieval algorithm using MCARS

Galina Wind, Arlindo M. da Silva, Kerry G. Meyer, Steven Platnick, and Peter M. Norris

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This is the third paper in series about the Multi-sensor Cloud and Aerosol Retrieval Simulator (MCARS). In this paper we use MCARS to create a set of constraints that might be used to assimilate a new above-cloud aerosol retrieval product developed for the MODIS instrument into a general circulation model. We executed the above-cloud aerosol retrieval over a series of synthetic MODIS granules and found the product to be of excellent quality.