Temporal and spectral cloud screening of polar winter aerosol optical depth (AOD): impact of homogeneous and inhomogeneous clouds and crystal layers on climatological-scale AODs

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: N. T. O'Neill, K. Baibakov, S. Hesaraki, L. Ivanescu, R. V. Martin, C. Perro, J. P. Chaubey, A. Herber, T. J. Duck
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; Chemistry; QD1-999; Canada; Eureka; Nunavut; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12753-2016; https://doaj.org/article/9bf206b6eb8a42a39facdd06381c58c4

We compared star-photometry-derived, polar winter aerosol optical depths (AODs), acquired at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada, and Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, with GEOS-Chem (GC) simulations as well as ground-based lidar and CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) retrievals over a sampling perio...