CERES MODIS Cloud Product Retrievals for Edition 4--Part II: Comparisons to CloudSat and CALIPSO

Assessments of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Edition 4 (Ed4) cloud retrievals are critical for climate studies. Ed4 cloud parameters are evaluated using instruments in the A-Train Constellation. Cloud-Aerosol LiDAR with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) and Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) retrievals are compared with Ed4 retrievals from the Aqua Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrorad...