Multiple light scattering calculations for aerosol retrieval

Sonoyo Mukai; Takuma Yokomae; Makiko Nakata; Itaru Sano

doi:10.1117/12.869624

28 October 2010 Multiple light scattering calculations for aerosol retrieval

Sonoyo Mukai, Takuma Yokomae, Makiko Nakata, Itaru Sano

Proceedings Volume 7859, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds III; 78590N (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869624
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2010, Incheon, Korea, Republic of

Abstract

In this work we focus on aerosol retrieval in the heavy events such as dust storm and biomass burning plume. It is natural to consider that incident solar light multiply interacts with the atmospheric aerosols due to dense radiation field in the aerosol event, that is to say the optical thickness of Earth atmosphere increases too much to do sun/sky photometry from surface-level. However the space-based observations are available for monitoring the atmospheric aerosols even in the heavy aerosol events. Here retrieval algorithms from space for such aerosol events are proposed. In practice, appropriate index for detection of dust storm or biomass burning plume, diagnostic method of core part of the aerosol event, and simulation code of radiative transfer for semi-infinite atmosphere model are newly developed. In this work, the space- or surface-based measurements, multiple scattering calculations and model simulations are synthesized together for aerosol retrieval.

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Sonoyo Mukai, Takuma Yokomae, Makiko Nakata, and Itaru Sano "Multiple light scattering calculations for aerosol retrieval", Proc. SPIE 7859, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds III, 78590N (28 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869624

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