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Sun & Cess 2005
Sun, M. and Cess, R.D. (2005). Improvements in cloud identification over snow/ice surfaces from ERBE to CERES. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL022009. issn: 0094-8276.

The procedure used in the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment for identifying the presence of clouds over snow/ice surfaces is known to have shortcomings, and this is corroborated through use of surface insolation measurements at the South Pole as an independent means of identifying clouds. These surface insolation measurements are then used to validate the more detailed cloud identification scheme used in the follow-up Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), and this validation is extended to the polar night through use of CERES measurements of the outgoing longwave radiation.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud/radiation interaction, Global Change, Remote sensing, Atmospheric Processes, Climatology (1616, 1620, 3305, 4215, 8408)
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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