How Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties?

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dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Y. J.
dc.contributor.authorHolben, B. N.
dc.contributor.authorTanre, D.
dc.contributor.authorSlutzker, I.
dc.contributor.authorEck, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorSmirnov, A.
dc.contributor.authorEinaudi, Franco
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T17:01:44Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T17:01:44Z
dc.date.issued2000-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe Terra mission, launched at the dawn of 1999, and Aqua mission to be launched soon, will possess innovative measurements of the aerosol daily spatial distribution, distinguish between dust, smoke and regional pollution and measure aerosol radiative forcing of climate. Their polar orbit gives daily global coverage, however measurements are acquired at specific time of the day. To what degree can present measurements from Terra taken between 10:00 and 11:30 AM local time, represent the daily average aerosol forcing of climate? Here we answer this question using 7 years of data from the distributed ground based 50-70 instrument Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) This (AERONET) half a million measurement data set shows that Terra aerosol measurements represent the daily average values within 5%. The excellent representation is found for large dust particles or small aerosol particles from Fires or regional pollution and for any range of the optical thickness, a measure of the amount of aerosol in the atmosphere.
dc.description.urihttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20000085547
dc.format.extent13 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.genrepreprints
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2cil9-c8mf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/33460
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC GESTAR II
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.
dc.rightsPublic Domain
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
dc.subjectEnvironment Pollution
dc.titleHow Well Can Aerosol Measurements from the Terra Morning Polar Orbiting Satellite Represent the Daily Aerosol Abundance and Properties?
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-1610

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