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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2025, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 303-315

Cloud cover characteristics at nighttime at the location of the TAIGA astrophysical gamma-ray observatory according to the data of satellite-based instruments

A.I. Revyakin 1 , E.Yu. Mordvin 1 , A.A. Lagutin 1 
1 Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
Accepted: 24.02.2025
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2025-22-2-303-315
The paper proposes an approach to reconstructing in real-time regime cloud cover parameters based on the data from the AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) hyperspectrometer onboard the Aqua satellite. The specific problem being solved is estimation of cloud boundaries in the area of the TAIGA (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic rays and Gamma Astronomy) astrophysical complex. The relevance of this information is due to the need to take into account the contribution of extensive air showers, which were previously classified as “cloudy” at the data preprocessing stage, in the energy spectrum and mass composition of primary cosmic radiation reconstructed from the readings of the Cherenkov radiation detectors. The information basis of the proposed approach is data on vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity provided by the AIRS L2 Support Product. Analysis of the obtained results shows that in the area of the TAIGA observatory for the 2002–2024 observation seasons, the characteristic height of the lower boundary of the cloud layer is ~2.25 km above sea level. The thicknesses of the cloud layers range from 0.5 to 4 km. The obtained estimates are verified based on the results of a joint analysis of AIRS data with satellite measurements of the CPR (Cloud Profiling Radar)/CloudSat radar and the CALIOP/CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization/Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) lidar that were carried out in the period 2006–2011. The main result of the work is the conclusion on the possibility of using the AIRS/Aqua hyperspectrometer data, as well as equivalent data of the CrIS (Cross-Track Infrared Sounder) instrument of the JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) satellite constellation to obtain in real-time regime information on cloud characteristics during nighttime observations carried out by the TAIGA Cherenkov detectors.
Keywords: cloud cover, remote sensing, AIRS hyperspectrometer, TAIGA gamma-ray observatory
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