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Meanwhile, deep convective clouds (DCC) are known to have a stable reflectance in the visible spectral range. Therefore, the reflected lunar radiance at night from the DCC provides a unique dataset for the inter-calibration of VIIRS DNB on different satellites such as Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) and NOAA-20, as well as quantifying the lunar radiance as a function of lunar phase angle. This study demonstrates a methodology for comparing nighttime Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS DNB measured DCC reflected lunar radiance at various phase angles using data from July 2018 to March 2019 with an 86 second sampling interval and comparing Suomi NPP VIIRS DNB measured lunar radiances with those from lunar model predictions. The result shows good consistency between these two instruments on the two satellites, although a low bias in the NOAA-20 VIIRS DNB of ~5% is found. Also, observed lunar radiance from VIIRS DNB on Suomi NPP is found to be consistent with model predictions within 3% \u00b1 5% (1\u03c3) for a large range of lunar phase angles. However, discrepancies are significant near full moon, due to lunar opposition effects, and limitations of the lunar models. This study is useful not only for monitoring the DNB calibration stability and consistency across satellites, but also may help validate lunar models independently.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11080934","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,17]],"date-time":"2019-04-17T11:07:11Z","timestamp":1555499231000},"page":"934","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Radiometric Inter-Consistency of VIIRS DNB on Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 from Observations of Reflected Lunar Lights over Deep Convective Clouds"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3572-6525","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Changyong","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Maryland\/Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS), College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9782-5337","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenhui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Science &amp; Technology, Inc.,  Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Taeyoung","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Science &amp; Technology, Inc.,  Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1052","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2015.2473665","article-title":"Lunar Calibration and Performance for S-NPP VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands","volume":"54","author":"Xiong","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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