Improvements for ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol properties by additional polarimetric measurements

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1954-1961

  Li, Zhengqiang ^a   Goloub, Philippe ^a   Dubovik, Oleg ^a   Blarel, Luc ^a   Zhang, Wenxing ^d   Podvin, Thierry ^a   Sinyuk, Alexander ^b   Sorokin, Mikhail ^b   Chen, Hongbin ^d   Holben, Brent ^b   Tanré, Didier ^a   Canini, Marius ^c   Buis, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CIMEL Electronique   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Calibration; Polarization; Remote sensing; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; CALIBRATION METHOD; DESERT DUST; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; LABORATORY FACILITIES; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NONSPHERICITY; PARTICLE SHAPE; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; REAL PART; RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SMALL PARTICLES; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

CALIBRATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 67849084858     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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