Evaluating NASA S-NPP continuity cloud products for climate research using CALIPSO, CATS and Level-3 analysis

Robert Holz, UW SSEC, Madison, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Kerry Meyer, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard Frey, CIMSS/UW-Madison, Evansville, WI, United States, G. Wind, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Steven A Ackerman, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Andrew K Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States, Denis Botambekov, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States, John E Yorks, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Matthew J McGill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States