Application:

Estimation of the cloud top height (altitude in km or pressure in hPa) and the cloud top temperature.

Advantages:

✓ Available from meteorological geostationary satellites (GOES, Himawari, MSG).

✓ Available during day and night.

✓ Available at the temporal frequency of the satellites.

✓ Useful in estimation of the height of convective clouds .

Limitations:

X CTTH is not retrieved for low broken clouds.

X CTTH may be not retrieved for thin cirrus clouds.

X Retrieved low cloud top height may be overestimated.