Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry
| dc.contributor.author | Remer, Lorraine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Knobelspiesse, Kirk | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zhai, Peng-Wang | |
| dc.contributor.author | Xu, Feng | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martins, Vanderlei | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-17T15:34:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-17T15:34:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07-23 | |
| dc.description | Authors: Lorraine Remer, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Peng-Wang Zhai, Feng Xu, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Jacek Chowdhary, Otto Hasekamp, Oleg Dubovik, Lianghai Wu, Ziauddin Ahmad, Emmanuel Boss, Brian Cairns, Odele Coddington, Anthony B. Davis, Heidi M. Dierssen, David J. Diner, Bryan Franz, Robert Frouin, Bo-Cai Gao, Amir Ibrahim, Robert C. Levy, Vanderlei Martins, Ali H. Omar, and Omar Torres | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary multi-angle polarimeters for the space-based retrieval of global aerosol properties. Aerosol remote sensing from multi-angle radiometric-only observations enables aerosol characterization to a greater degree than single-view radiometers, as demonstrated by nearly two decades of heritage instruments. Adding polarimetry to the multi-angle observations allows for the retrieval of aerosol optical depth, Angstrom exponent, parameters of size distribution, measures of aerosol absorption, complex refractive index and degree of non-sphericity of the particles, as demonstrated by two independent retrieval algorithms applied to the heritage POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance (POLDER) instrument. The reason why this detailed particle characterization is possible is because a multi-angle polarimeter measurement contains twice the number of Degrees of Freedom of Signal (DFS) compared to an observation from a single-view radiometer. The challenges of making use of this information content involve separating surface signal from atmospheric signal, especially when the surface is optically complex and especially in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum where we show the necessity of polarization in making that separation. The path forward is likely to involve joint retrievals that will simultaneously retrieve aerosol and surface properties, although advances will be required in radiative transfer modeling and in representing optically complex constituents in those models. Another challenge is in having the processing capability that can keep pace with the output of these instruments in an operational environment. Yet, preliminary algorithms applied to airborne multi-angle polarimeter observations offer encouraging results that demonstrate the advantages of these instruments to retrieve aerosol layer height, particle single scattering albedo, size distribution and spectral optical depth, and also show the necessity of polarization measurements, not just multi-angle radiometric measurements, to achieve these results. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by NASA Grants under the solicitation NNH13ZDA001N-PACEST. In addition, LR, RL, and OT acknowledge funding from NASA grant NNX15AD15G. OK and AD contribution was supported by the PACE science team grant, under Paula Bontempi. P-WZ acknowledges funding from NASA grant 80NSSC18K0345. OC acknowledges funding from NASA grant NNX15AC78G. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00094 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 21 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2woya-baqf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Remer LA, Knobelspiesse K, Zhai P-W, Xu F, Kalashnikova OV, Chowdhary J, Hasekamp O, Dubovik O, Wu L, Ahmad Z, Boss E, Cairns B, Coddington O, Davis AB, Dierssen HM, Diner DJ, Franz B, Frouin R, Gao B-C, Ibrahim A, Levy RC, Martins JV, Omar AH and Torres O (2019) Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry. Front. Environ. Sci. 7:94. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00094 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00094 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/15883 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Frontiers | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
| dc.rights | This 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.title | Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
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