Retrieval of aerosol optical depth in vicinity of broken clouds from reflectance ratios: Sensitivity study

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 14-16, 2009, Pages 1677-1689

  Kassianov, Evgueni ^a   Ovchinnikov, Mikhail ^a   Berg, Larry K ^a   McFarlane, Sally A ^a   Flynn, Connor ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth; Continental cumulus clouds; Multi spectral reflectance

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CLOUD EFFECTS; CLOUD SCREENING; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTINENTAL CUMULUS CLOUDS; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; INDEPENDENT PIXEL APPROXIMATIONS; INPUT DATA; IPA METHOD; MULTI-SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVALS; RATIO METHOD; REFLECTANCE RATIO; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

CLOUDS; PIXELS; RANDOM ERRORS; REFLECTION; SUN; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; CLOUD COVER; CUMULUS; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PIXEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; REFLECTANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 67649382542     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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