What does an instrument infer about a cloud?
Remote sensing offers spatial coverage while introducing a retrieval problem: signals must be translated into atmospheric quantities using assumptions and auxiliary data. Instrument observations and derived products are different layers of evidence. Record wavelength, sampling volume, quality flags and retrieval version when combining a product with a local intervention trial.
Questions worth measuring
- What is measured directly and what is retrieved?
- Do the sampling volumes and times match?
- How are low signal, saturation and missing observations handled?
The records below are a starting point for those questions. Read the original methods and results before applying a finding outside the tested setting.