Aerosol daytime variations over North and South America derived from multiyear AERONET measurements

Aerosol properties derived from AERONET data

Classification of aerosol properties derived from AERONET direct sun data G. P. Gobbi, Y. J. Kaufman, I. Koren, and T. F. Eck Inst. Scienze dell’ Atmosfera e del Clima, CNR, Rome, Italy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 613.2, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA Dep. of Environ. Sciences Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel GEST, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Received: 25 July 2006 – Acce...

Classification of aerosol properties derived from AERONET direct sun data

Aerosol spectral measurements by sunphotometers can be characterized by three independent pieces of information: 1) the optical thickness (AOT), a measure of the column aerosol concentration, 2) the optical thickness average spectral dependence, given by the Angstrom exponent (α), and 3) the spectral curvature of α (δα). We propose a simple graphical method to visually convert (α, δα) to the co...

Aerosol direct radiative effect in the Po Valley region derived from AERONET measurements

Aerosol microphysical retrievals from PFR and AERONET

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Comparison of MODIS and AERONET derived aerosol optical depth over the Ganga Basin, India

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard EOS Terra measures global aerosol optical depth and optical properties since 2000. MODIS aerosol products are freely available and are being used for numerous studies. In this paper, we present a comparison of aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved from MODIS with Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data for the year 2004 over Kanpu...