Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO
International audience Monthly mean infrared (10 μm) dust layer aerosol optical depth (AOD) and mean altitude are simultaneously retrieved over the tropics (30° S-30° N) from almost seven years of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) observations covering the period January 2003 to September 2009. Th...
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ftunivlille:oai:HAL:hal-04113854v1 2024-06-23T07:55:03+00:00 Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO Peyridieu, S. Chédin, A. Tanré, D. Capelle, V. Pierangelo, C. Lamquin, N. Armante, R. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Université de Lille Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES) 2010 https://hal.science/hal-04113854 https://hal.science/hal-04113854/document https://hal.science/hal-04113854/file/acp-10-1953-2010.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-1953-2010 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-10-1953-2010 hal-04113854 https://hal.science/hal-04113854 https://hal.science/hal-04113854/document https://hal.science/hal-04113854/file/acp-10-1953-2010.pdf BIBCODE: 2010ACP.10.1953P doi:10.5194/acp-10-1953-2010 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.science/hal-04113854 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010, 10, pp.1953-1967. ⟨10.5194/acp-10-1953-2010⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2010 ftunivlille https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-1953-2010 2024-05-27T14:23:51Z International audience Monthly mean infrared (10 μm) dust layer aerosol optical depth (AOD) and mean altitude are simultaneously retrieved over the tropics (30° S-30° N) from almost seven years of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) observations covering the period January 2003 to September 2009. The method developed relies on the construction of look-up-tables computed for a large selection of atmospheric situations and follows two main steps: first, determination of the observed atmospheric thermodynamic situation and, second, determination of the dust properties. A very good agreement is found between AIRS-retrieved AODs and visible optical depths from the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS/Aqua) during the main (summer) dust season, in particular for three regions of the tropical North Atlantic and one region of the north-western Indian Ocean. Outside this season, differences are mostly due to the sensitivity of MODIS to aerosol species other than dust and to the more specific sensitivity of AIRS to the dust coarse mode. AIRS-retrieved dust layer mean altitudes are compared to the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP/CALIPSO) aerosol mean layer altitude for the period June 2006 to June 2009. Results for a region of the north tropical Atlantic downwind of the Sahara show a good agreement between the two products (σ≍360 m). Differences observed in the peak-to-trough seasonal amplitude, smaller from AIRS, are principally attributed to the large difference in spatial sampling of the two instruments. They also come from the intrinsic limit in sensitivity of the passive infrared sounders for low altitudes. These results demonstrate the capability of high resolution infrared sounders to measure not only dust aerosol AOD but also the mean dust layer altitude. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic LillOA (HAL Lille Open Archive, Université de Lille) Indian Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10 4 1953 1967 |
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International audience Monthly mean infrared (10 μm) dust layer aerosol optical depth (AOD) and mean altitude are simultaneously retrieved over the tropics (30° S-30° N) from almost seven years of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) observations covering the period January 2003 to September 2009. The method developed relies on the construction of look-up-tables computed for a large selection of atmospheric situations and follows two main steps: first, determination of the observed atmospheric thermodynamic situation and, second, determination of the dust properties. A very good agreement is found between AIRS-retrieved AODs and visible optical depths from the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS/Aqua) during the main (summer) dust season, in particular for three regions of the tropical North Atlantic and one region of the north-western Indian Ocean. Outside this season, differences are mostly due to the sensitivity of MODIS to aerosol species other than dust and to the more specific sensitivity of AIRS to the dust coarse mode. AIRS-retrieved dust layer mean altitudes are compared to the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP/CALIPSO) aerosol mean layer altitude for the period June 2006 to June 2009. Results for a region of the north tropical Atlantic downwind of the Sahara show a good agreement between the two products (σ≍360 m). Differences observed in the peak-to-trough seasonal amplitude, smaller from AIRS, are principally attributed to the large difference in spatial sampling of the two instruments. They also come from the intrinsic limit in sensitivity of the passive infrared sounders for low altitudes. These results demonstrate the capability of high resolution infrared sounders to measure not only dust aerosol AOD but also the mean dust layer altitude. |
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Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Université de Lille Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES) |
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Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO |
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Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO |
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Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO |
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Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO |
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Saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from AIRS: a focus over North Atlantic - comparison to MODIS and CALIPSO |
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saharan dust infrared optical depth and altitude retrieved from airs: a focus over north atlantic - comparison to modis and calipso |
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