On the angular effect of residual clouds and aerosols in clear-sky IR window radiance observations

This paper summarizes work investigating the zenith angular dependence of residual cloud and/or aerosol contamination on “clear-sky” infrared observations, which include cloud-cleared radiances and cloud-masked data, along with the implication for achieving agreement with forward calculations over the scanning range of the sensor.

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