aerosol retrievals
Sensitivity of PARASOL multi-angle photopolarimetric aerosol retrievals to cloud contamination
... on aerosol retrievals from multi-angle photopolarimetric measurements of the POLDER-3 instrument over the ocean is ...For retrievals from synthetic measurements it is found that a goodness-of-fit ...
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Improved cloud and snow screening in MAIAC aerosol retrievals using spectral and spatial analysis
... The full description of MAIAC has been given before (Lya- pustin and Wang, 2009; Lyapustin et al., 2011a, b). Below, we provide the minimum level of detail which is only rel- evant for the current discussion. MAIAC ...
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MISR Dark Water aerosol retrievals: operational algorithm sensitivity to particle non-sphericity
... MISR aerosol re- trievals have been successfully used to study dust transported in the Saharan Air Layer (Kalashnikova and Kahn, ...MISR aerosol retrievals show sensitivity to dust being transported ...
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A sea surface reflectance model for (A)ATSR, and application to aerosol retrievals
... ORAC aerosol retrieval scheme and used to process one month of AATSR data in the south-eastern ...MODIS aerosol retrieval algo- rithm may lead to a positive bias in MODIS AOD over ocean regions where the ...
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Use of neural networks in ground-based aerosol retrievals from multi-angle spectropolarimetric observations
... groundSPEX aerosol re- trievals and the AERONET retrievals showed a good agree- ment in the total AOT (absolute differences most often be- low ...the aerosol microphysical properties more challenging ...
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A critical examination of spatial biases between MODIS and MISR aerosol products – application for potential AERONET deployment
... satellite aerosol products, not only over the AERONET sites, but also over regions that may lack ground-based ...of aerosol retrievals among differ- ent sensors mostly highlighting the differences ...
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Applications of Satellite Data for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Retrievals and Validation with AERONET Data
... 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 ...MODIS ...
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Retrievals of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from Imaging Polar Nephelometer scattering measurements
... of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from in situ light-scattering mea- surements is presented and the results are compared with ex- isting measurement ...of Aerosol and Surface Properties ...
A new method of measuring aerosol optical properties from digital twilight photographs
... tering lidar, and (2) the absence of clouds over a 200 km area on the solar side of the observation site, measured by infrared imagery from the Multifunctional Transport Satel- lite (MTSAT), a geostationary ...
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On the improvement of NO 2satellite retrievals – aerosol impact on the airmass factors
... (mainly aerosol optical depth (AOD) but also, e.g., aerosol size distribution) albeit at low spatial ...for aerosol retrievals since they provide high spatial resolution and, in some cases, ...
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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 ...global aerosol ...
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Implications of MODIS bow-tie distortion on aerosol optical depth retrievals, and techniques for mitigation
... DT aerosol data) or on a common scaling of this detector-based grid ...DT aerosol data sets or to collocate aerosol and cloud data products for other stud- ...the aerosol products any- ...
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Global and regional evaluation of over-land spectral aerosol optical depth retrievals from SeaWiFS
... A further question is whether the spatial averaging of Sea- WiFS data is decreasing the apparent error, by averaging out noise in the data. To test this, a more restricted addi- tional comparison was performed, using ...
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OMI tropospheric NO 2air mass factors over South America: effects of biomass burning aerosols
... the aerosol type based on collocated AIRS CO observations, UVAI, and ge- ographical ...the aerosol type, a best guess ALH is also ...with aerosol index greater than ...of aerosol extinction is ...
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Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals
... many retrievals are within the claimed uncertainty boundaries or ...satellite retrievals and mod- eling ...in aerosol production rates (Lewis and Schwartz, 2004), foam formation and its latitudinal ...
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Preliminary investigations toward nighttime aerosol optical depth retrievals from the VIIRS Day/Night Band
... Fig. 1. (a) VIIRS nighttime imagery over Sal Island from the VIIRS Day/Night Band for 8 February 2012. The island is less observable due to the presence of a heavy aerosol plume. (b) Similar to Fig. 1a but for a ...
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Inter-comparison of lidar and ceilometer retrievals for aerosol and Planetary Boundary Layer profiling over Athens, Greece
... Figure 7 shows the averaged vertical profiles of the at- tenuated backscatter coefficient obtained by the NTUA Ra- man lidar (at 1064 nm) and the ceilometer (converted to 1064 nm data), both averaged on 3 h (07:00–10:00 ...
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Aerosol microphysical retrievals from precision filter radiometer direct solar radiation measurements and comparison with AERONET
... various aerosol databases with a frequency of 1–15 min, ...continental aerosol types are not well represented in the AERONET data set, and the GAW-PFR network can add to ...
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Minimum aerosol layer detection sensitivities and their subsequent impacts on aerosol optical thickness retrievals in CALIPSO level 2 data products
... low aerosol-loading ...passive retrievals collocated with all-RFV CALIOP profiles is about ...an aerosol layer as a cloud, and again when the extinction co- efficients retrieved for a detected ...
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Geiß, Alexander (2016): Automated calibration of ceilometer data and its applicability for quantitative aerosol monitoring. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... air. Aerosol particles are omnipresent in the ambient air, but due to their size, ranging between ...absorbing aerosol, an effect on the tropospheric stability and consequently reduced cloud formation can ...
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