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 Petkov, Mauro Mazzola, Christoph Ritter, Alcide Di Sarra, Tatiana Di Iorio, Massimo Del Guasta
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 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; 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

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...