MODIS provide MOD06 product, which contains cloud optical properties including Cloud Optical Thickness (COT) and effective particle radius. COT is retrieved based on a look-up scheme, which adopts a Look-Up Table (LUT).
LUT is constructed based on a Radiative Transfer Model (RTM), however, some papers dedicating to describe the COT retrieval algorithm don’t explicitly point out the exact name of the RTM and its availability.
Can someone provide me some information about the RTM? Your help would be really appreciated!
Hi!
You should take a look to the technical report
modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/atbd/atbd_mod05.pdf
and for sure, in "An introduction to Atmospheric Radiative Transfer" from K.N. Liou or "Atmospheric Radiative Transfer" from Jacqueline Lenoble, see the chapter Remote Sensing. They explain in details the assumptions made.
Try these:
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/_docs/C6MOD06OPExecSum.pdf
Tsay, S. C., K. Stamnes and K. Jayaweera, 1990: Radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres: Development and verification of a unified model. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 43, 133–148.
Chenxi Wang, Ping Yang, Steven Platnick, Andrew K. Heidinger, Bryan A. Baum, Thomas Greenwald, Zhibo Zhang, and Robert E. Holz, 2013: Retrieval of Ice Cloud Properties from AIRS and MODIS Observations Based on a Fast High-Spectral-Resolution Radiative Transfer Model. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 52, 710–726.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-020.1
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