Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data
The fine-mode aerosol optical depth (AOD f ) is an important parameter for the environment and climate change study, which mainly represents the anthropogenic aerosols component. The Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a Lidar (PARASOL)...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:23d8e6633a6a472cb085dd394da6f1ca 2023-05-15T13:06:35+02:00 Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data Yang Zhang Zhengqiang Li Zhihong Liu Juan Zhang Lili Qie Yisong Xie Weizhen Hou Yongqian Wang Zhixiang Ye 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111838 https://doaj.org/article/23d8e6633a6a472cb085dd394da6f1ca EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1838 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs10111838 https://doaj.org/article/23d8e6633a6a472cb085dd394da6f1ca Remote Sensing, Vol 10, Iss 11, p 1838 (2018) multi-angular remote sensing polarized remote sensing fine-mode aerosol optical depth optimal aerosol model determination PARASOL Science Q article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111838 2022-12-31T09:42:22Z The fine-mode aerosol optical depth (AOD f ) is an important parameter for the environment and climate change study, which mainly represents the anthropogenic aerosols component. The Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a Lidar (PARASOL) instrument can detect polarized signal from multi-angle observation and the polarized signal mainly comes from the radiation contribution of the fine-mode aerosols, which provides an opportunity to obtain AOD f directly. However, the currently operational algorithm of Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique (LOA) has a poor AOD f retrieval accuracy over East China on high aerosol loading days. This study focused on solving this issue and proposed a grouped residual error sorting (GRES) method to determine the optimal aerosol model in AOD f retrieval using the traditional look-up table (LUT) approach and then the AOD f retrieval accuracy over East China was improved. The comparisons between the GRES retrieved and the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) ground-based AOD f at Beijing, Xianghe, Taihu and Hong_Kong_PolyU sites produced high correlation coefficients (r) of 0.900, 0.933, 0.957 and 0.968, respectively. The comparisons of the GRES retrieved AOD f and PARASOL AOD f product with those of the AERONET observations produced a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.054 versus 0.104 on high aerosol loading days (AERONET mean AOD f at 865 nm = 0.283). An application using the GRES method for total AOD (AOD t ) retrieval also showed a good expandability for multi-angle aerosol retrieval of this method. Article in Journal/Newspaper Aerosol Robotic Network Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Remote Sensing 10 11 1838 |
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The fine-mode aerosol optical depth (AOD f ) is an important parameter for the environment and climate change study, which mainly represents the anthropogenic aerosols component. The Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a Lidar (PARASOL) instrument can detect polarized signal from multi-angle observation and the polarized signal mainly comes from the radiation contribution of the fine-mode aerosols, which provides an opportunity to obtain AOD f directly. However, the currently operational algorithm of Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique (LOA) has a poor AOD f retrieval accuracy over East China on high aerosol loading days. This study focused on solving this issue and proposed a grouped residual error sorting (GRES) method to determine the optimal aerosol model in AOD f retrieval using the traditional look-up table (LUT) approach and then the AOD f retrieval accuracy over East China was improved. The comparisons between the GRES retrieved and the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) ground-based AOD f at Beijing, Xianghe, Taihu and Hong_Kong_PolyU sites produced high correlation coefficients (r) of 0.900, 0.933, 0.957 and 0.968, respectively. The comparisons of the GRES retrieved AOD f and PARASOL AOD f product with those of the AERONET observations produced a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.054 versus 0.104 on high aerosol loading days (AERONET mean AOD f at 865 nm = 0.283). An application using the GRES method for total AOD (AOD t ) retrieval also showed a good expandability for multi-angle aerosol retrieval of this method. |
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Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data |
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Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data |
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Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data |
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Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data |
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Retrieval of the Fine-Mode Aerosol Optical Depth over East China Using a Grouped Residual Error Sorting (GRES) Method from Multi-Angle and Polarized Satellite Data |
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retrieval of the fine-mode aerosol optical depth over east china using a grouped residual error sorting (gres) method from multi-angle and polarized satellite data |
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