Inter-comparisons of marine boundary layer cloud properties 1 from the ARM CAP-MBL campaign and two MODIS cloud 2 products 3 4

Inter-comparisons of marine boundary layer cloud properties 1 from the ARM CAP-MBL campaign and two MODIS cloud 2 products 3 4 Zhibo Zhang , Xiquan Dong, Baike Xi, Hua Song, Po-Lun Ma, 5 Steven J. Ghan, Steven Platnick, and Patrick Minnis 6 7 1. Physics Department, UMBC, Baltimore, MD 8 2. Joint Center Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), UMBC, 9 Baltimore, MD 10 3. Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, 11 Tucson, AZ. 12 4. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, 13 ND 14 5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 15 6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 16 7. NASA Langley Research Center 17 18 19 20 For publication in JGR-Atmospheres, revised Dec. 2016. 21

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