Two-Channel Algorithm for Determining the Aerosol Optical Depth over the Sea Surface Using the MSU-MR Radiometer of the Meteor-M No. 2 Satellite.

In this paper, we consider the problem of determining the aerosol optical depth above the sea surface using the data of short-wavelength channels of the multizone low-resolution scanning instrument of the Meteor-M No. 2 satellite. The algorithm is based on the use of an optical model, which is a six-dimensional lookup table containing information about spectral brightness coefficients of satellite instrument channels for various atmospheric conditions and observation geometry. The results are validated, showing an 80% correlation with the reference data of the AERONET measurement network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]