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Aerosol optical depths over oceans: a view from misr retrievals and collocated man and aeronet in situ observations
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Garay, Michael J. Smirnov, Alexander Witek, Marcin L. Diner, David J. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | In this study, aerosol optical depths over oceans are analyzed from satellite and surface perspectives. Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aerosol retrievals are investigated and validated primarily against Maritime Aerosol Network (MAN) observations. Furthermore, AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) data from 19 island and coastal sites is incorporated in this study. The 270 MISRMAN comparison points scattered across all oceans were identified. MISR on average overestimates aerosol optical depths (AODs) by 0.04 as compared to MAN; the correlation coefficient and root-mean-square error are 0.95 and 0.06, respectively. A new screening procedure based on retrieval region characterization is proposed, which is capable of substantially reducing MISR retrieval biases. Over 1000 additional MISRAERONET comparison points are added to the analysis to confirm the validity of the method. The bias reduction is effective within all AOD ranges. Setting a clear flag fraction threshold to 0.6 reduces the bias to below 0.02, which is close to a typical ground-based measurement uncertainty. Twelve years of MISR data are analyzed with the new screening procedure. The average over ocean AOD is reduced by 0.03, from 0.15 to 0.12. The largest AOD decrease is observed in high latitudes of both hemispheres, regions with climatologically high cloud cover. It is postulated that the screening procedure eliminates spurious retrieval errors associated with cloud contamination and cloud adjacency effects. The proposed filtering method can be used for validating aerosol and chemical transport models.|||||||||||| |
| File Size | 3907011 |
| Page Count | 14 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150000278 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7tn27195 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-11-19 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aeronet Misr Aerosol Root-mean-square Errors Coasts Oceans Cirrus Clouds Atmospheric Models Bias Correlation Coefficients Misr Radiometry Cloud Cover Algorithms Cumulus Clouds Collocation Aerosols Optical Thickness Spatial Resolution Polar Regions Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
