A new method for the quantitative identification of the composition, size and density of stratospheric aerosols from high resolution IR satellite measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 28-1-28-4

  Zasetsky, A Yu ^a   Sloan, J J ^a   Escribano, R ^b   Fernandez, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL SPECTRUM;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0037113626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl015816     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Aballe, A., M. Bethencourt, F. J. Botana, M. Marcos, and J. M. Sanchez-Amaya, Use of wavelets to study electrochemical noise transients, Electrochimica Acta, 46(15), 2353-2361, 2001.
2. 2O in the mid infrared at atmospheric temperatures, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 104(4), 783-793, 2000.
3. Burrus, C. S., R. A. Gopinath, and H. Guo, Introduction to Wavelets and Wavelet Transform, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998.
4. Carslaw, K. S., T. Peter, and S. L. Clegg, Modelling the composition of liquid stratospheric aerosols, Reviews of Geophysics, 35(2), 125-154, 1997.
5. Deshler, T., B. J. Johnson, and W. R. Rozier, Balloonborne Measurements of Pinatubo Aerosol During 1991 and 1992 at 41-degrees-N - Vertical Profiles, Size Distribution, and Volatility, Geophysical Research Letters, 20(14), 1435-1438, 1993.
6. Dubovik, O., and M. D. King, A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 105(D16), 20,673-20,696, 2000.
7. Eldering, A., F. W. Irion, A. Y. Chang, M. R. Gunson, F. P. Mills, and H. M. Steele, Vertical profiles of aerosol volume from high-spectral- resolution infrared transmission measurements. I. Methodology, Applied Optics, 40(18), 3082-3091, 2001.
8. Hofmann, D. J., Perturbations to the global atmosphere associated with the El Chichon volcanic eruption of 1982, Reviews of Geophysics, 25, 743-759, 1987.
9. Höpfner, M., H. Oelhaf, G. Wetzel, F. Friedel-Vallon, A. Kleinert, A. Lengel, G. Maucher, H. Nordmeyer, N. Glatthor, G. Stiller, T. V. Clarmann, and H. Fischer, Evidence of scattering of tropospheric radiation by PSCs in mid-IR limb emission spectra: MIPAS-B observations and KOPRA simulations, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(8), 119-1-119-4, 2002.
10. Lawson, C. L., and R. J. Hanson, Solving Least Squares Problem, Prentice-Hall, 1974.
11. Le Roy, R. J., Uncertainty, sensitivity, convergence, and rounding in performing and reporting least-squares fits, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 191(2), 223-231, 1998.
12. Lee, K. M., J. H. Park, S. T. Massie, and W. Choi, Extinction coefficients and properties of Pinatubo aerosol determined from Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) data, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 106(D22), 28,333-28,345, 2001.
13. Massie, S. T., T. Deshler, G. E. Thomas, J. L. Mergenthaler, and J. M. Russell, Evolution of the infrared properties of the Mount Pinatubo aerosol cloud over Laramie, Wyoming, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 101(D17), 23,007-23,019, 1996.
14. Rinsland, C. P., G. K. Yue, M. R. Gunson, R. Zander, and M. C. Abrams, Midinfrared Extinction by Sulphate Aerosol from the Mt-Pinatubo Eruption, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 52(3-4), 241-252, 1994.
15. Solomon, S., The mystery of the Antarctic ozone "hole", Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 131-148, 1988.
16. Thompson, D., T. Pepin, and F. Simon, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 72, 1498, 1982.
17. Yue, G. K., L. W. Thomason, L. R. Poole, P.-H. Wang, D. Baumgardner, and J. E. Dye, Aerosol surface areas deduced deduced from early 1993 SAGE II data and comparisons with stratospheric photochemistry, aerosols, and Dynamics Expedition measurements, Geophysical Research Letters, 22(21), 2933-2936, 1995.