Will aerosol measurements from Terra and Aqua Polar Orbiting satellites represent the daily aerosol abundance and properties?

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dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Yoram J.
dc.contributor.authorHolben, Brent N.
dc.contributor.authorTanré, Didier
dc.contributor.authorSlutsker, Ilya
dc.contributor.authorSmirnov, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorEck, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T17:01:37Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T17:01:37Z
dc.date.issued2000-12-01
dc.description.abstractThe Terra and Aqua missions will help quantify aerosol radiative forcing of climate by providing innovative measurements of the aerosol daily spatial distribution and identifying dust, smoke and regional pollution. However, these measurements are acquired at specific times of the day. To what extent can such measurements represent the daily average aerosol forcing of climate? We answer this question using 7 years of data from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) of 50–70 global ground-based instruments. AERONET measures the aerosol spectral optical thickness and the total precipitable water vapor every 15 minutes throughout the day. With a data set of 1/2 million measurements, AERONET demonstrates that Terra and Aqua aerosol measurements can represent the annual average value within 2% error. This excellent Terra representation of the daily average optical thickness is independent of the particle size or range of the optical thickness. This finding should facilitate ingest of satellite aerosol measurements in models that calculate radiative forcing and predict climate change.
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2000GL011968
dc.format.extent4 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2s5v2-gxyc
dc.identifier.citationKaufman, Yoram J., Brent N. Holben, Didier Tanré, Ilya Slutsker, Alexander Smirnov, and Thomas F. Eck. “Will Aerosol Measurements from Terra and Aqua Polar Orbiting Satellites Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties?” Geophysical Research Letters 27, no. 23 (2000): 3861–64. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL011968.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL011968
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/33448
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAGU
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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.titleWill aerosol measurements from Terra and Aqua Polar Orbiting satellites represent the daily aerosol abundance and properties?
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