Evaluation of Cloud and Aerosol Screening of Early Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Observations with Collocated MODIS Cloud Mask

Thomas Taylor1, Christopher O'Dell2, Heather Q Cronk3, Philip Partain3, Christian Frankenberg4, Annmarie Eldering5, David Crisp5, Michael R Gunson5, Robert R Nelson6, Albert Chang7, Brendan Fisher8, Gregory B Osterman9, Harold R Pollock5, Andrey Savtchenko10 and Emily J Rosenthal11, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States