398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements
Observations of backscattered near-ultraviolet radiation from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on board the Nimbus-7 (1979–92) and the Earth Probe (mid-1996 to present) satellites have been used to derive a long-term record of aerosol optical depth over oceans and continents. The retrieva...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.143.9615 2023-05-15T13:06:27+02:00 398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements O. Torres P. K. Bhartia J. R. Herman A. Sinyuk The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2001 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.143.9615 http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/2002/torres0201.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.143.9615 http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/2002/torres0201.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/2002/torres0201.pdf text 2001 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:03:50Z Observations of backscattered near-ultraviolet radiation from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on board the Nimbus-7 (1979–92) and the Earth Probe (mid-1996 to present) satellites have been used to derive a long-term record of aerosol optical depth over oceans and continents. The retrieval technique applied to the TOMS data makes use of two unique advantages of near-UV remote sensing not available in the visible or near-IR: 1) low reflectivity of all land surface types (including the normally bright deserts in the visible), which makes possible aerosol retrieval over the continents; and 2) large sensitivity to aerosol types that absorb in the UV, allowing the clear separation of carbonaceous and mineral aerosols from purely scattering particles such as sulfate and sea salt aerosols. The near-UV method of aerosol characterization is validated by comparison with Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) ground-based observations. TOMS retrievals of aerosol optical depth over land areas (1996–2000) are shown to agree reasonably well with AERONET sun photometer observations for a variety of environments characterized by different aerosol types, such as carbonaceous aerosols from biomass burning, desert dust aerosols, and sulfate aerosols. In most cases the TOMS-derived optical depths of UV-absorbing aerosols are within 30 % of the AERONET observations, while nonabsorbing optical depths agree to within 20%. The results presented here constitute the first long-term nearly global climatology of aerosol Text Aerosol Robotic Network Unknown |
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Observations of backscattered near-ultraviolet radiation from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on board the Nimbus-7 (1979–92) and the Earth Probe (mid-1996 to present) satellites have been used to derive a long-term record of aerosol optical depth over oceans and continents. The retrieval technique applied to the TOMS data makes use of two unique advantages of near-UV remote sensing not available in the visible or near-IR: 1) low reflectivity of all land surface types (including the normally bright deserts in the visible), which makes possible aerosol retrieval over the continents; and 2) large sensitivity to aerosol types that absorb in the UV, allowing the clear separation of carbonaceous and mineral aerosols from purely scattering particles such as sulfate and sea salt aerosols. The near-UV method of aerosol characterization is validated by comparison with Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) ground-based observations. TOMS retrievals of aerosol optical depth over land areas (1996–2000) are shown to agree reasonably well with AERONET sun photometer observations for a variety of environments characterized by different aerosol types, such as carbonaceous aerosols from biomass burning, desert dust aerosols, and sulfate aerosols. In most cases the TOMS-derived optical depths of UV-absorbing aerosols are within 30 % of the AERONET observations, while nonabsorbing optical depths agree to within 20%. The results presented here constitute the first long-term nearly global climatology of aerosol |
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398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements |
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398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements |
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398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements |
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398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements |
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398 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES VOLUME 59 A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements |
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398 journal of the atmospheric sciences volume 59 a long-term record of aerosol optical depth from toms observations and comparison to aeronet measurements |
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