Seasonal Variations of the Relative Optical Air Mass Function for Background Aerosol and Thin Cirrus Clouds at Arctic and Antarctic Sites

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Claudio Tomasi, Boyan H. Petkov, Mauro Mazzola, Christoph Ritter, Alcide G. di Sarra, Tatiana di Iorio, Massimo del Guasta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2015
• Subjects: relative optical air mass function; background Arctic aerosol in summer; background Antarctic aerosol at coastal sites; diamond dust ground layer on the Antarctic Plateau; thin cirrus clouds; cirrus clouds in the middle troposphere; Science; Q; Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Eureka; Greenland; Mario Zucchelli; Mirny; Neumayer; Nunavut; Ny-Ålesund; Sodankylä; Svalbard; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Barrow; Northern Finland; Ny Ålesund; Thule; Alaska; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70607157; https://doaj.org/article/e03799cd6b764ec78aeb236fb1758a58

New calculations of the relative optical air mass function are made over the 0°–87° range of apparent solar zenith angle θ, for various vertical profiles of background aerosol, diamond dust and thin cirrus cloud particle extinction coefficient in the Arctic and Antarctic atmospheres. The calculation...