Limitations of AERONET SDA product in presence of cirrus clouds

A. Smirnov; T. B. Zhuravleva; M. Segal-Rosenheimer; B. N. Holben

doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.12.007

Limitations of AERONET SDA product in presence of cirrus clouds

A. Smirnov, T. B. Zhuravleva, M. Segal-Rosenheimer, B. N. Holben

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Abstract

The paper discusses certain limitations on applicability of Spectral Deconvolution Algorithm (SDA) to aerosol optical depth spectral measurements contaminated by cirrus clouds. Analysis of the synthetic data demonstrates that application of SDA to cloud contaminated measurements can produce significant errors in the apparent optical depth fine mode retrievals. Such application can produce results that just look reasonable and physically admissible but in fact can be relatively far from the truth and therefore can be misleading.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	338-341
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Volume	206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.12.007
State	Published - Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET)
Aerosols
Aerosols and clouds
Cirrus optical depth
Remote sensing
Sun photometers

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Limitations of AERONET SDA product in presence of cirrus clouds

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