Minimum aerosol layer detection sensitivities and their subsequent impacts on aerosol optical thickness retrievals in CALIPSO level 2 data products

Due to instrument sensitivities and algorithm detection limits, level 2 (L2) Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) 532 nm aerosol extinction profile retrievals are often populated with retrieval fill values (RFVs), which indicate the absence of detectable levels of aerosol wit...

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Main Authors: T. D. Toth, J. R. Campbell, J. S. Reid, J. L. Tackett, M. A. Vaughan, J. Zhang, J. W. Marquis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Online Access:https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/11/499/2018/amt-11-499-2018.pdf