Aerosols all over the world from ADEOS/POLDER

Author

Sano, I. ; Mukai, S. ; Takemura, T. ; Nakajima, T.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Kinki Univ., Osaka, Japan

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2954

Abstract

This work shows the global map of atmospheric aerosols retrieved from ADEOS/POLDER´s radiance and polarization data over the entire functioning period of the satellite ADEOS from November, 1996 to June, 1997. In practice, the radiance and the polarization degree are used in the case of aerosol estimation over the ocean, and polarized radiance is applied to aerosols over the land. The retrieved results of the optical thickness, Angstrom exponent and refractive indices of aerosols are compared with AGCM/SPRINTARS simulations.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric composition; atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing; 443 to 910 nm; AD 1996; AD 1997; ADEOS; Angstrom exponent; IR; POLDER; aerosol; atmosphere; global distribution; global map; infrared; measurement technique; optical imaging; optical thickness; optics; polarization; radiance; refractive index; satellite remote sensing; spatial distribution; visible; Aerosols; Biomedical optical imaging; Land surface; Light scattering; Oceans; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical surface waves; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026833

Filename

1026833