Cornelia Schlundt

TL;DR: The second edition of the satellite-derived climate data record CLARA (The CM-SAF Cloud, Albedo And Surface Radiation dataset from AVHRR data) is described in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new cloud property datasets based on measurements from the passive imaging satellite sensors AVHRR, MODIS, ATSR2, AATSR and MERIS, which include components for cloud detection and cloud typing followed by cloud property retrievals based on the optimal estimation technique.

TL;DR: The CLARA-A2 record provides cloud properties, surface albedo and surface radiation parameters derived from the AVHRR sensor onboard polar orbiting NOAA and METOP satellites as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The retrieval method is presented describing optimal estimation in general, the nonlinear inversion method employed, measurement and a priori inputs, the propagation of input uncertainties and the calculation of subsidiary quantities that are derived from the retrieval results.

TL;DR: In this article, a simplified satellite cloud simulator has been developed and applied to 6-hourly ERA-Interim reanalysis data covering the period of 1982 to 2014, where the authors evaluated the ERA-interim clouds using satellite observations.