Retrieval of UV surface radiation from GOME data

Author

Bobylev, L.P. ; Elagin, V.V. ; Johannessen, O.M. ; Roublev, A.N. ; Choubarova, N.E.

Author_Institution

Nansen Int. Environ. & Remote Sensing Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1347

Abstract

A new algorithm is developed for retrieval of surface UV radiation under realistic cloudiness conditions using GOME/ERS-2 data. This algorithm is based on a simple radiation model of the atmosphere and accounts for the UV radiation attenuation due to clouds and atmospheric aerosol. For validation of the suggested algorithm ground-truth measurements of biologically active UV incident radiation were used. The measurements were conducted at the Moscow University Meteorologocal Observatory for time period between March and November 1999 using a UV-B radiometer (UVB-1, Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc.). A mean relative difference between the retrieved and measured values over 273 days was assessed at 10.8%

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing; AD 1999 03 to 11; European satellite ERS-2; GOME data; Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment; Moscow University Meteorological Observatory; Russia; UV attenuation; UV surface radiation retrieval; UV-B radiometer; algorithm; atmospheric aerosol; atmospheric radiation model; biologically active UV incident radiation; cloudiness; clouds; ground-truth measurements; Aerosols; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Attenuation; Biological system modeling; Clouds; Information retrieval; Meteorology; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976840

Filename

976840