Polarimetric retrievals of surface and cirrus clouds properties in the region affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 389-403

  Ottaviani, Matteo ^a   Cairns, Brian ^a   Chowdhary, Jacek ^b   Van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan ^c   Knobelspiesse, Kirk ^a   Hostetler, Chris ^d   Ferrare, Rich ^d   Burton, Sharon ^d   Hair, John ^d   Obland, Michael D ^d   Rogers, Raymond ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ^*  (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Oil spill; Polarization; Remote sensing; Sunglint; Thin film interference

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEYS; AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; AEROSOL LAYERS; AEROSOL SCATTERING; AEROSOL TYPES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATTITUDE VARIATIONS; CIRRUS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD COVER; COLD CLOUDS; DEEPWATER; DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDARS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OCEAN SURFACE PROPERTIES; OFF SHORE PLATFORMS; OIL SLICKS; OPTICAL DEPTH; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION RESPONSE; RESEARCH SCANNING POLARIMETERS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SUBVISUAL; SUNGLINT; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE; WATER SURFACE; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

AIRCRAFT; CLOUDS; DRILLING PLATFORMS; NASA; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; OIL SPILLS; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AERIAL SURVEY; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIDAR; OCEAN WAVE; OIL POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; OPTICAL DEPTH; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; SEA SURFACE; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84858730806     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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