“…Taking advantages of high spatial resolution imaging and high spectral resolution sounding instruments from the same platform, synergistic use of collocated two types of measurements has shown to be very useful in retrieval of sounding and cloud properties (Li et al, ; Li et al, ; Li et al, ), and in assimilating radiances into NWP models, especially in cloudy skies (Li et al, , Li et al, ; P. Wang et al, , 2015, 2017). Previous work has pointed out the advantages of using VIIRS and CrIS for intercalibration (Chen et al, , ; Gong et al, ; Moeller et al, ; Tobin et al, ; L. Wang et al, ). With collocated CrIS measurements, the BNR technique can be adopted and applied for detecting VIIRS DCC pixels.…”