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For this reason, 42-month CC products from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer\u2019s (MODIS) Collection 6.1 daily cloud cover products (MOD06_L2, MYD06_L2, MOD08_D3, and MYD08_D3) and Himawari-8 are compared with the ground-based camera datasets. The comparison shows that CC from MODIS differs from ground measurement CC by as much as 57% over Chiba, Japan, when low CC is observed by the camera. This indicates MODIS\u2019s ability to capture high-level clouds that are not effectively seen from the ground. When the camera detects high CC, an indication of the presence of low-level clouds, CC from MODIS is relatively higher than the CC from the camera. In the case of Himawari-8 data, when the camera observes low CC, this difference is around 0.7%. This result indicates that high-level clouds are not effectively observed, but the Himawari-8 data correlates well with camera observations. When the camera observes high CC, Himawari-8-derived CC is lower by around 10% than CC from the camera. These results show the potential of continuous observations of nighttime clouds using the camera to provide a dataset that can be used for intercomparison among nighttime satellite CC products.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14040960","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,16]],"date-time":"2022-02-16T21:36:24Z","timestamp":1645047384000},"page":"960","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Assessment of Nighttime Cloud Cover Products from MODIS and Himawari-8 Data with Ground-Based Camera Observations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8672-4717","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nofel","family":"Lagrosas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]},{"given":"Alifu","family":"Xiafukaiti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]},{"given":"Hiroaki","family":"Kuze","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]},{"given":"Tatsuo","family":"Shiina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7155","DOI":"10.5194\/acp-11-7155-2011","article-title":"Relationship between cloud radiative forcing, cloud fraction and cloud albedo, and new surface-based approach for determining cloud albedo","volume":"11","author":"Liu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Atmos. 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