How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties?
The Terra mission, launched at the dawn of 1999, and Aqua mission to be launched soon, will possess innovative measurements of the aerosol daily spatial distribution, distinguish between dust, smoke and regional pollution and measure aerosol radiative forcing of climate. Their polar orbit gives dail...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20000085547 2023-05-15T13:06:08+02:00 How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? Slutzker, I. Smirnov, A. Kaufman, Y. J. Tanre, D. Eck, T. F. Holben, B. N. Einaudi, Franco Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available [2000] application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20000085547 unknown Document ID: 20000085547 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20000085547 No Copyright CASI Environment Pollution 2000 ftnasantrs 2015-03-15T02:40:19Z The Terra mission, launched at the dawn of 1999, and Aqua mission to be launched soon, will possess innovative measurements of the aerosol daily spatial distribution, distinguish between dust, smoke and regional pollution and measure aerosol radiative forcing of climate. Their polar orbit gives daily global coverage, however measurements are acquired at specific time of the day. To what degree can present measurements from Terra taken between 10:00 and 11:30 AM local time, represent the daily average aerosol forcing of climate? Here we answer this question using 7 years of data from the distributed ground based 50-70 instrument Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) This (AERONET) half a million measurement data set shows that Terra aerosol measurements represent the daily average values within 5%. The excellent representation is found for large dust particles or small aerosol particles from Fires or regional pollution and for any range of the optical thickness, a measure of the amount of aerosol in the atmosphere. Other/Unknown Material Aerosol Robotic Network NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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Environment Pollution Slutzker, I. Smirnov, A. Kaufman, Y. J. Tanre, D. Eck, T. F. Holben, B. N. Einaudi, Franco How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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The Terra mission, launched at the dawn of 1999, and Aqua mission to be launched soon, will possess innovative measurements of the aerosol daily spatial distribution, distinguish between dust, smoke and regional pollution and measure aerosol radiative forcing of climate. Their polar orbit gives daily global coverage, however measurements are acquired at specific time of the day. To what degree can present measurements from Terra taken between 10:00 and 11:30 AM local time, represent the daily average aerosol forcing of climate? Here we answer this question using 7 years of data from the distributed ground based 50-70 instrument Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) This (AERONET) half a million measurement data set shows that Terra aerosol measurements represent the daily average values within 5%. The excellent representation is found for large dust particles or small aerosol particles from Fires or regional pollution and for any range of the optical thickness, a measure of the amount of aerosol in the atmosphere. |
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Slutzker, I. Smirnov, A. Kaufman, Y. J. Tanre, D. Eck, T. F. Holben, B. N. Einaudi, Franco |
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Slutzker, I. Smirnov, A. Kaufman, Y. J. Tanre, D. Eck, T. F. Holben, B. N. Einaudi, Franco |
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Slutzker, I. |
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How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties? |
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how well can aerosol measurements from the terra morning polar orbiting satellite represent the daily aerosol abundance and properties? |
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