Validation - Atmosphere -

Cloud fraction

• Sky camera
• Cloud radar + lidar

Cloud optical thickness and effective particle radius

• i-skyradiometer
• Cloud radar + lidar

Cloud top height

• Lidar
• Cloud radar
• Sonde

Cloud top temperature

• Sonde

Cloud liquid water path

• Microwave radiometer
• Cloud radar + lidar
• AMSR

Aerosol optical thickness and Angstrom exponent

• Skyradiometer
• AERONET