CloudSat Level 3 Gridded Products: Introduction and Application to Evaluation of the MERRA-2 Reanalysis

John M Haynes, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States and Philip Partain, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States