Dust altitude and infrared optical depth from AIRS

Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared observations of atmospheric dust and water ice cloud optical depth

[1] The Mars Odyssey spacecraft entered into Martian orbit in October 2001 and after successful aerobraking, began mapping in February 2002. Thermal infrared images taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on board the Odyssey spacecraft allow for the quantitative retrieval of atmospheric dust and water ice aerosol optical depth. Data collected so far cover late northern winter, sp...

Cirrus cloud optical and microphysical properties determined from AIRS infrared spectra

[1] We developed an efficient thermal infrared radiative transfer model on the basis of the delta-four-stream approximation to facilitate high-spectral-resolution remote sensing applications under cirrus cloudy conditions in the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data. Numerical experiments demonstrated that sensitivity in the 800-1130 cm 1 thermal infrared window spectral region is sufficient...

Dust Detection and Optical Depth Retrieval Using MSG SEVIRI Data

Thanks to its observational frequency of 15 min, the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) geostationary satellite offers a great potential to monitor dust storms. To explore this potential, an algorithm for the detection and the retrieval of dust aerosol optical properties has been tested. This is a multispectral algorithm based on visible and infrared data which has been applied to 15 case studies...

Passive remote sensing of altitude and optical depth of dust plumes using the oxygen A and B bands: First results from EPIC/DSCOVR at Lagrange-1 point

We presented an algorithm for inferring aerosol layer height (ALH) and optical depth (AOD) over ocean surface from radiances in oxygen A and B bands measured by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) orbiting at Lagrangian-1 point. The algorithm was applied to EPIC imagery of a 2 day dust outbreak over the North Atlantic Ocean. Retrieved ALH...

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