Detection and/or distinction between haze and/or cloud

The concentration of air pollutants has become severe, and influence of biomass burning aerosols (BBA) generated by agricultural biomass burning (ABB) has been noted upon the severe haze episodes. This work intends to show the retrieval algorithm as far as heavy air pollution caused by ABB is concerned. Aerosol retrieval in the hazy atmosphere is achieved based on radiation simulation method of successive order of scattering (MSOS) for the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) on AQUA data. Multi-angle observations with the polarization and directionality of the Earth´s reflectances (POLDER) on the polarization & anisotropy of reflectances for atmospheric sciences coupled with observations from a lidar (PARASOL) are available for aerosol retrieval from a mixture of cloud and haze.