An ATBD describes our data fusion effort in more detail, and is in PDF format. View Version 1.0 by Baum, Menzel, and Weisz.

Other Relevant References

Baum, B. A., W. P. Menzel, R. A. Frey, D. Tobin, R. E. Holz, S. A. Ackerman, A. K. Heidinger, and P. Yang, 2012: MODIS cloud top property refinements for Collection 6. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 51, 1145-1163. View

Cross, J. I. Gladkova, W. P. Menzel, A.Heidinger, and M. D. Grossberg, 2013: Statistical estimation of a 13.3-µm Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite channel using multisensor data fusion. J. Appl. Remote Sens. 7 (1), 073473. doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073473.

Heidinger, A. K., M. J. Pavolonis, R. E. Holz, B. A. Baum, and S. Berthier, 2010: Using CALIPSO to explore the sensitivity to cirrus height in the infrared observations from NPOESS/VIIRS and GOES-R/ABI. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00l15, doi:10.1029/2009JD012379. View

Menzel, W. P., R. Frey, H. Zhang, D. Wylie, C. Moeller, R. Holz, B. Maddux, B. A. Baum, K. Strabala, and L. Gumley, 2008: MODIS global cloud-top pressure and amount estimation: algorithm description and results. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 47, 1175-1198. View

Weisz, E., B. A. Baum, and W. P. Menzel, 2017: Fusion of satellite-based imager and sounder data to construct supplementary high spatial resolution narrowband IR radiances. J. Appl. Remote Sens. 11(3), 036022 (2017), doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.036022. View