L3 COSP Cloud Properties Documentation
Product User Guide
L3 MCD06 COSP Cloud Properties User Guide [v1.6, 8/6//20] View PDF
Version 1.6, August 2020
Hubanks, Pincus, Platnick, Meyer
Scientific Papers
MODIS simulator paper: Pincus, R., S. Platnick, S. A. Ackerman, R. S. Hemler, and R. J. P. Hofmann, 2012: Reconciling simulated and observed views of clouds: MODIS, ISCCP, and the limits of instrument simulators. J. Climate, 25, 4699-4720. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00267.1 View PDF
COSP: Bodas-Salcedo, A. et al, 2011: COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 92, 1023-1043. doi:10.1175/2011BAMS2856.1 View PDF
COSP Version 2: Swales, D. J., R. Pincus, and A. Bodas-Salcedo, 2018: The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project Observational Simulator Package: Version 2. Geosci. Model Dev.. 11, 77-81, doi:10.5194/10.5194/gmd-11-77-2018 View PDF