Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
Diurnal and Monthly Variation of Aerosol Optical Depth and Angstrom’s Parameters in Kathmandu Valley
... Aerosol optical depth is measured by using Microtops II Sunphotometer manufactured by Solar Light Company ...of aerosol characteristics at five narrow wavelength bands 340, 440, 500, 675 and ...
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Comparative Accuracy Assessment of Combined MODIS and NAAPS Aerosol Optical Depth with AERONET Data over North Africa
... (MODIS) Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) retrieval algorithm was designed to complement exist- ing “Dark Target” Ocean and Land algorithms to be able to retrieve AOD over bright land ...2 ...
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Retrieval of aerosol optical depth in vicinity of broken clouds from reflectance ratios: case study
... of aerosol optical depth (AOD) is evaluated using extensive airborne and ground-based data sets collected during the Cloud and Land Surface Interac- tion Campaign (CLASIC) and the Cumulus ...
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Trend Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth and Ångström Exponent Anomaly over East Africa
... (in Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) at 550 nm and Ångström Exponent Anomaly (ÅEA) at 470 - 660 nm) and seasonal (AOD)) from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) were ...
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Evaluating nighttime CALIOP 0.532 µm aerosol optical depth and extinction coefficient retrievals
... Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) Version ...µm aerosol optical depth (AOD) from 2007 are evaluated during nighttime at 1 ◦ × 1 ◦ resolution rela- tive to ...
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Construction of an Inexpensive Sun Photometer to Measure Aerosol Optical Depth and Comparisons between the Measured Data and Satellite Observations
... actual AOD by sun photometer cloudless sky is needed to enlighten the LED vertically by sun ...actual AOD data must be collected for whole day, because relative air mass changes rapidly during morning and ...
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Nocturnal aerosol optical depth measurements with modified sky radiometer POM-02 using the moon as a light source
... of aerosol data are obtained from daytime measurements, and there are few datasets available for studying nighttime aerosol ...the aerosol optical depth (AOD) and the ...
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Estimating particulate matter using sattellite based aerosol optical depth and meteorological parameters in Malaysia
... algorithms. AOD data is a basic parameter used to determine aerosol concentration from throughout the entire ...Synergistic AOD is a combination of MERIS and AATSR instruments that improve the ...
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Applications of Satellite Data for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Retrievals and Validation with AERONET Data
... MODIS AOD retrievals in this ...of aerosol retrievals from MODIS and AERONET for Canberra, Birdsville and Tinga Tingana sites in Australia for year 2005 are described in the following ...
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Impact of aerosols optical depth on angstrom exponent and microphysical properties of clouds over Iraq
... maritime aerosol, and volcanic ash) or they can be produced from precursor gases ...organic aerosol and ...between aerosol optical depth (AOD) and cloud parameters has become a ...
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High-resolution urban aerosol monitoring using Sentinel -2 satellite images
... sensing aerosol monitoring products are readily available but limited to regional and global scales due to low spatial resolutions making them unsuitable for city-level ...map aerosol distribution at local ...
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Technical details concerning development of a 1200 yr proxy index for global volcanism
... Because the index developed for this study is a record of stratospheric aerosol optical depth (AOD), Icelandic erup- tions (taken from www.volcano.si.edu / ) were generally mini- mized or ...
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The Influence of Dust and Black Carbon on Clouds, in Africa
... when aerosol particles such as the mist, the smoke and the smog interact with the ...But, aerosol cools and warms the atmosphere: as aerosol interacts with the clouds, a variety of physical and ...
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Spatial Temporal Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols via Airborne Spectral Imaging and Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Maps
... Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom Exponent (ÅE) and Precipitation Rate (PR) data values consist of 62, 69 and 136 samples respectively with each having six variables denoting the spatial ...
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Improving Langley calibrations by reducing diurnal variations of aerosol Angstr¨om parameters
... spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD), the columnar aerosol loading of the atmosphere, which is an important radiative forcing parameter of the Earth’s climate system (Forster et ...The ...
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Optical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols via Airborne Spectral Imaging and Self Organizing Map for Climate Change Diagnostics
... perform optical characteri- zation of both Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Ångström Exponent (ÅE) retrieved from Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in relation to ...
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Understanding the aerosol information content in multi-spectral reflectance measurements using a synergetic retrieval algorithm
... 40 aerosol mixtures from Table ...identical aerosol type but variable aerosol optical depth ranging from 0 to ...albedo, aerosol type are ...of aerosol mixtures with ...
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Intercomparison of desert dust optical depth from satellite measurements
... past, aerosol retrievals for satellite radiometers have typically made use of visible and near-infrared measure- ments, the interpretation of which becomes difficult over bright surfaces such as deserts (Kaufman ...
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Impact of aerosol on air temperature in Baghdad
... Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) is the measure of aerosol distributed with a Column of air from earth’s surface to the top of atmosphere, in this study, temperature variation of ...
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Estimation of aerosol complex refractive indices for both fine and coarse modes simultaneously based on AERONET remote sensing products
... used aerosol CRI obtained by the global Aerosol Robotic Net- work (AERONET) corresponds to total-column aerosol par- ticles without separation for fine and coarse ...(VPSD), aerosol ...
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