Aerosol Layer Height With Enhanced Spectral Coverage Achieved by Synergy Between VIIRS and OMPS-NM Measurements

Evaluation of VIIRS Land Aerosol Model Selection with AERONET Measurements

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is a next-generation polar-orbiting operational environmental sensor with a capability for global aerosol observations. Identifying land aerosol types is important because aerosol types are a basic input in retrieving aerosol optical properties for VIIRS. The VIIRS algorithm can automatically select the optimal land aerosol model by minimizi...

A new algorithm for detecting cloud height using OMPS/LP measurements

The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler (OMPS/LP) ozone product requires the determination of cloud height for each event to establish the lower boundary of the profile for the retrieval algorithm. We have created a revised cloud detection algorithm for LP measurements that uses the spectral dependence of the vertical gradient in radiance between two wavelengths in the visible and ne...

A New Algorithm for Detecting Cloud Height using OMPS / LP Measurements 1

Aerosol Layer Height Over Water from O2 A-band: Mono-Angle Hyperspectral and/or Bi-spectral Multi-Angle Observations

Success of NASA’s Phytoplankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission 1 depends critically on atmospheric correction to retrieve inherent properties of oceanic waters. 2 Previously unexplored UV wavelengths are the most challenging to correct due to large signals 3 from Rayleigh and aerosol scattering. The dominant Rayleigh component makes it difficult to 4 separate absorption by ...

TROPOMI’s Aerosol Layer Height Algorithm: Interpretation of the retrieved height parameter

TROPOMI’s Aerosol Layer Height algorithm currently assumes a simplified aerosol profile in the form of a single layer of homogeneously distributed aerosols. The height of this layer is retrieved by using height information from the O2 A band. It is not straightforward to interpret the retrieved height parameter, since true aerosol profiles are typically complex and heterogeneous. We used radiat...