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GOSAT-2 will be equipped with two Earth-observing instruments: the Thermal and Near-infrared Sensor for carbon Observation Fourier Transform Spectrometer 2 (TANSO-FTS-2) and TANSO-Cloud and Aerosol Imager 2 (CAI-2). CAI-2 can be used to perform cloud discrimination in each band. The cloud discrimination algorithm uses minimum reflectance (Rmin) for comparisons with observed top-of-atmosphere reflectance. The creation of cloud-free Rmin requires 10 CAI or CAI-2 data. Thus, Rmin is created from CAI L1B data for a 30-day period in GOSAT, with a revisit time of 3 days. It is necessary to change the way in which 10 observations are chosen for GOSAT-2, which has a revisit time of 6 days. Additionally, Rmin processing for GOSAT CAI data was updated to version 02.00 in December 2016. Along with this change, the resolution of Rmin changed from 1\/30\u00b0 to 500 m. We examined the impact of changes in Rmin on cloud discrimination results using GOSAT CAI data. In particular, we performed comparisons of: (1) Rmin calculated using different methods to choose the 10 observations and (2) Rmin calculated using different generation procedures and spatial resolutions. The results were as follows: (1) The impact of using different methods to choose the 10 observations on cloud discrimination results was small, except for a few cases, e.g., snow-covered regions and sun-glint regions; (2) Cloud discrimination results using Rmin in version 02.00 were better than results obtained using Rmin in the previous version, apart from some special situations. 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