An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET

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dc.contributor.authorHolben, B. N.
dc.contributor.authorTanré, D.
dc.contributor.authorSmirnov, A.
dc.contributor.authorEck, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorSlutsker, I.
dc.contributor.authorAbuhassan, N.
dc.contributor.authorNewcomb, W. W.
dc.contributor.authorSchafer, J. S.
dc.contributor.authorChatenet, B.
dc.contributor.authorLavenu, F.
dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Y. J.
dc.contributor.authorCastle, J. Vande
dc.contributor.authorSetzer, A.
dc.contributor.authorMarkham, B.
dc.contributor.authorClark, D.
dc.contributor.authorFrouin, R.
dc.contributor.authorHalthore, R.
dc.contributor.authorKarneli, A.
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, N. T.
dc.contributor.authorPietras, C.
dc.contributor.authorPinker, R. T.
dc.contributor.authorVoss, K.
dc.contributor.authorZibordi, G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T17:02:54Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T17:02:54Z
dc.date.issued2001-06-01
dc.description.abstractLong-term measurements by the AERONET program of spectral aerosol optical depth, precipitable water, and derived Angstrom exponent were analyzed and compiled into an aerosol optical properties climatology. Quality assured monthly means are presented and described for 9 primary sites and 21 additional multiyear sites with distinct aerosol regimes representing tropical biomass burning, boreal forests, midlatitude humid climates, midlatitude dry climates, oceanic sites, desert sites, and background sites. Seasonal trends for each of these nine sites are discussed and climatic averages presented.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper represents considerable effort over many years by numerous people who have collectively developed the AERONET program and allowed analysis of the data presented here. Our thanks to the individual site managers who have maintained an active interest in the project and resulted in long-term observations, including Fred Bierlmaier (H.J. Andrews), Doug Moore (Sevilleta), Steve Ryan (MLO), Mukufute M. Mukelabai (Mongu), Jose Chagas (Cuiaba), Alfredo Pereira (Brazil network), Bento de Silva (Brasilia), O. Manga, J. L. Rajot, E. F. Santos Soares, A. Werem (PHOTON sites), Ray Johnson (Thompson), S. Khudulmur and Enkhtuvshin (Dalanzadgad), Judd Welton and David Bates (Dry Tortugas), Mark Yarborough (Lanai), Miguel Rivas (Arica), Jeff Chilton, Naval Air Warfare Center, Point Mugu (San Nicholas), T. O. Aro (Ilorin), Mike Willis (Bahrain), Paula Palachek (Waskesiu), Mike Snyder (Bondville), Alain Royer and Amadou Bokoye (CARTEL, Universit6 de Sherbrooke, Sherbroke, Quebec, Canada) and Francesco Cappellani (Ispra). Our thanks to our funding sources that had the foresight to support this international collaborative activity; these include Michael King, EOS Senior Project Scientist, Diane Wickland and Robert Curran of NASA Headquarters for support of AERONET, M. Alain Podaire (CNES) and Daniel Vidal-Madjar (CNRS) for support of PHOTON, Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) of NSF for support of the LTER sites, and Philippe Teillet and Gunar Fedosejevs of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing for supporting AEROCAN (the Canadian AERONET component coordinated by the CARTEL group of the Universit6 de Sherbrooke), the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program for support of the Southern Great Plains site and NASA/EOS MODIS contract NAS5- 31363 for support for the Dry Tortugas site. Finally, our thanks to Ellsworth Dutton and Russ Schnell of NOAA/CMDL for their longterm support for our calibration effort at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2001JD900014
dc.format.extent31 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ivor-mcaa
dc.identifier.citationHolben, B. N., D. Tanré, A. Smirnov, T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, N. Abuhassan, W. W. Newcomb, et al. “An Emerging Ground-Based Aerosol Climatology: Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 106, no. D11 (2001): 12067–97. https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD900014.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD900014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/33562
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.rightsThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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dc.titleAn emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET
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