Remote sensing Persian Gulf oil fire aerosols

Author

Higurashi, A. ; Nakajima, T. ; Hayasaka, T. ; Najafi, Y.

Author_Institution

Center for Climate Syst. Res., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1956

Abstract

Optical properties of Persian Gulf oil fire aerosols were investigated by simultaneous analyses of ground based solar radiation measurements and satellite remote sensing technique for a period of June 12-September 17, 1991 at Bushehr, Iran. The atmospheric turbidity at Bushehr increased nearly regularly with a period of one week. This phenomenon was especially significant in June with an increase of optical thickness as large as 1.3 at wavelength of 0.5 μm. The absorption index also increased by as much as 0.03-0.05 in these events showing an effect of oil fire aerosols from Kuwait

Keywords

aerosols; air pollution; atmospheric composition; atmospheric optics; remote sensing; smoke; 350 to 850 nm; AD 1991; Bushehr; Gulf War; Iran; Kuwait; Persian Gulf; aerosol; air pollution; atmosphere; burning oil well; fire; optical properties; optical thickness; optics; smoke; solar radiation; sunlight; turbidity; visible; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric waves; Fires; Optical sensors; Petroleum; Remote sensing; Satellites; Solar radiation; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322370

Filename

322370