Remote sensing of cloud, aerosol, and water vapor properties from the moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS)

Author

King, Michael D. ; Kaufman, Yoram J. ; Menzel, W. Paul ; Tanré, Didier

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

27

Abstract

The authors describe the status of MODIS-N and its companion instrument MODIS-T (tilt), a tiltable cross-track scanning spectrometer with 32 uniformly spaced channels between 0.410 and 0.875 μm. They review the various methods being developed for the remote sensing of atmospheric properties using MODIS, placing primary emphasis on the principal atmospheric applications of determining the optical, microphysical, and physical properties of clouds and aerosol particles from spectral reflection and thermal emission measurements. In addition to cloud and aerosol properties, MODIS-N will be used for determining the total precipitable water vapor and atmospheric stability. The physical principles behind the determination of each of these atmospheric products are described, together with an example of their application to aircraft and/or satellite measurements

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric measuring apparatus; clouds; remote sensing; spectrometers; 0.41 to 0.875 micron; MODIS-N; MODIS-T; aerosol particles; aircraft; atmospheric properties; atmospheric stability; clouds; moderate resolution imaging spectrometer; remote sensing; satellite measurements; spectral reflection; thermal emission measurements; tiltable cross-track scanning spectrometer; total precipitable water vapor; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Clouds; Instruments; MODIS; Optical sensors; Remote sensing; Spectroscopy; Stimulated emission; Water;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.124212

Filename

124212