Airborne sunphotometer, airborne in-situ, space-borne, and ground-based measurements of tropospheric aerosol in ACE-2

• Main Authors: Schmid, B., Collins, D., Gassó, S., Öström, E., Powell, D., Welton, E., Durkee, P., Livingston, J., Russell, P., Flagan, R., Seinfeld, J., Hegg, D., Noone, K., Voss, K., Reagan, J., Spinhirne, J., McIntosh, D. M.
• Other Authors: Stein, Tammy I.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2000
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/51181/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/51181/1/00857288.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141103-131053475

The North Atlantic Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-2) of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC) ran from 16 June to 25 July 1997. The results presented in this study are part of the "Clear-sky column closure experiment" (CLEARCOLUMN) activity, one of 6 ACE-2 activities [1]. Clear-sky column closure experiments call for characterization of aerosol layers by simultaneous measurements using different techniques that can be related using models [2]. A wide range of aerosol types was encountered throughout the ACE-2 area, including background Atlantic marine, European pollution-derived and African mineral dust. In a series of papers, we reported on ACE-2 CLEARCOLUMN results obtained by combining airborne sunphotometer and in-situ measurements taken aboard the Pelican aircraft, spaceborne NOAA/VHRR data and ground-based lidar and sunphotometer measurements [3]-[10]. Those and other CLEARCOLUMN results have been summarized in [11]. In this paper we only report on results not shown in this form in [3]-[11].