Retrieval of aerosol optical properties over the Beijing area using POLDER/PARASOL satellite polarization measurements
Retrieval of aerosol optical properties over the Beijing area using POLDER/PARASOL satellite polarization measurements
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DOI:
10.1007/s00376-009-8103-x
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发表时间:
2009-11
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Xuehua Fan;Hongbin Chen;Longfu Lin;Zhi-gang Han;P. Goloub
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作者:
Xuehua Fan;Hongbin Chen;Longfu Lin;Zhi-gang Han;P. Goloub
Aerosol optical properties over Beijing and Xianghe under several typical weather conditions (clear sky, light haze, heavy pollution and dust storm) are derived from POLDER (POLarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances)/PARASOL (Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar) multi-directional, multi-spectral polarized signals using a more reliable retrieval algorithm as proposed in this paper. The results are compared with those of the operational retrieval algorithm of POLDER/PARASOL group and the ground-based AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork)/PHOTONS (PHOtométrie pour le Traitement Opérational de Normalisation Satellitaire) measurements. It is shown that the aerosol optical parameters derived from the improved algorithm agree well with AERONET/PHOTONS measurement. The retrieval accuracies of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and effective radius are 0.06 and 0.05µm respectively, which are close to or better than the required accuracies (0.04 for AOT and 0.1µm for effective radius) for estimating aerosol direct forcing.