Climatology of aerosol optical depth in North Central Oklahoma: 1992-2008

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Michalsky, Joseph ^a   Denn, Frederick ^b   Flynn, Connor ^c   Hodges, Gary ^d   Kiedron, Piotr ^d   Koontz, Annette ^c   Schlemmer, James ^e   Schwartz, Stephen E ^f  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado ^*  (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL CYCLES; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CENTRAL FACILITIES; DATA SETS; FIELD CALIBRATION; LANGLEY CALIBRATION; MAUNA LOA; MT. PINATUBO; NARROW BANDS; OKLAHOMA; ROTATING SHADOWBAND RADIOMETER; SCATTER PLOTS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR MASS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATION BALANCE; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE SENSOR; STRATOSPHERE;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; LAMONT; MAUNA LOA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 77951076389     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012197     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Alexandrov, M., A. A. Lacis, B. E. Carlson, and B. Cairns (2002a), Derivation of 2D fields of aerosol and trace gases parameters by integrated analysis of multi-instrument MFRSR dataset from DOE ARM Program CART site, Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 4539, 277-288.
2. Alexandrov, M., B. Cairns, A. A. Lacis, and B. E. Carlson (2002b), Integrated study of MFRSR-derived parameters of atmospheric aerosols and trace gases over the ARM CART site: Comparison with satellite and other ground-based measurements, paper presented at the 12th ARM Science Team Meeting, Atmos. Radiat. Meas. Progam, U.S. Dep. of Energy, Richland, Wash.
3. Alexandrov, M. D., A. Marshak, B. Cairns, A. A. Lacis, and B. E. Carlson (2004), Automated cloud screening algorithm for MFRSR data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L04118, doi:10.1029/2003GL019105.
4. Augustine, J. A., G. B. Hodges, E. G. Dutton, J. J. Michalsky, and C. R. Cornwall (2008), An aerosol optical depth climatology for NOAA's national surface radiation budget network (SURFRAD), J. Geophys. Res., 113, D11204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009504.
5. Bigelow, D. S., J. R. Slusser, A. F. Beaubien, and J. H. Gibson (1998), The USDA Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 79, 601-615.
6. Cleveland, W. S. (1979), Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots, J. Am. Stat. Assoc., 74, 829-836, doi:10.2307/2286407.
7. Freemantle, J., N. O'Neill, A. Royer, B. McArthur, and I. Abboud (2005), AEROCAN: The Canadian Sunphotometer Network, Remote Sens. Atmos. Aerosols, 2005, 32-35, doi:10.1109/AERSOL.2005.1494146.
8. Harrison, L., and J. Michalsky (1994), Objective algorithms for the retrieval of optical depths from ground-based measurements, Appl. Opt., 33, 5126-5132, doi:10.1364/AO.33.005126.
9. Harrison, L., J. Michalsky, and J. Berndt (1994), Automated multifilter rotating shadow-band radiometer: An instrument for optical depth and radiation measurements, Appl. Opt., 33, 5118-5125, doi:10.1364/ AO.33.005118.
10. Holben, B. N., et al. (1998), AERONET-A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization, Remote Sens. Environ., 66, 1-16, doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00031-5.
11. Holben, B. N., et al. (2001), An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 12,067- 12,097, doi:10.1029/2001JD900014.
12. Koren, I., L. A. Remer, Y. J. Kaufman, Y. Rudich, and J. V. Martins (2007), On the twilight zone between clouds and aerosols, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08805, doi:10.1029/2007GL029253.
13. Long, C. N., E. G. Dutton, J. A. Augustine, W. Wiscombe, M. Wild, S. A. McFarlane, and C. J. Flynn (2009), Significant decadal brightening of downwelling shortwave in the continental United States, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00D06, doi:10.1029/2008JD011263.
14. McComiskey, A., S. E. Schwartz, B. Schmid, H. Guan, E. R. Lewis, P. Ricchiazzi, and J. A. Ogren (2008), Direct aerosol forcing: Calculation from observables and sensitivities to inputs, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D09202, doi:10.1029/2007JD009170.
15. Michalsky, J. J., J. A. Schlemmer, W. E. Berkheiser, J. L. Berndt, L. C. Harrison, N. S. Laulainen, N. R. Larson, and J. C. Barnard (2001), Multiyear measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement and Quantitative Links programs, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 12,099-12,107.
16. Mishchenko, M. I., I. V. Geogdzhayev, W. B. Rossow, B. Cairns, B. E. Carlson, A. A. Lacis, L. Liu, and L. D. Travis (2007), Long-term satellite record reveals likely recent aerosol trend, Science, 315, 1543, doi:10.1126/science.1136709.
17. Mitchell, R. M., and B. W. Forgan (2003), Aerosol measurement in the Australian Outback: Intercomparison of Sun photometers, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 20, 54-66, doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<0054: AMITAO>2.0.CO;2.
18. Peppler, R. A., et al. (2000), ARM Southern Great Plains site observations of the smoke pall associated with the 1998 Central American fires, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 81, 2563-2591, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(2000) 081<2563:ASGPSO>2.3.CO;2.
19. Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, O. Dubovik, and I. Slutsker (2000), Cloud screening and quality control algorithms for the AERONET database, Remote Sens. Environ., 73, 337-349, doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(00) 00109-7.
20. Stokes, G. M., and S. E. Schwartz (1994), The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program: Programmatic background and design of the cloud and radiation test bed, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 75, 1201-1221, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1994)075<1201:TARMPP>2.0. CO;2.