Aerosol optical depth and fine-mode fraction retrieval over East Asia using multi-angular total and polarized remote sensing.

Authors :: Cheng, T.
Gu, X.
Xie, D.
Li, Z.
Yu, T.
Chen, H.
Source :: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions; 2011, Vol. 4 Issue 5, p5689-5716, 28p, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts, 2 Graphs, 6 Maps
Publication Year :: 2011
Abstract: The article investigates the application of multi-angular total and polarized remote sensing for aerosol optical depth and fine-mode fraction retrieval in East Asia. It states that the algorithm retrieves aerosol optical depth (AOD), fine-mode fraction (FMF) for studying the climatic impact of aerosol. It indicates that the best features of aerosol model over East Asia are constrained using the cluster analysis technique based on the AERONET sun-photometer observation over East Asia.

Subjects :: ATMOSPHERIC aerosol measurement
AEROSOLS & the environment
CLIMATE change
ALGORITHMS
CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)

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