Aerosol optical thickness and scattering phase function retrieval from solar radiances recorded over water: a revised approach

Author

Paronis, D.K. ; Hatzopoulos, J.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Environ. Studies, Aegean Univ., Mytilene, Greece

Volume

4

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

1920

Abstract

The possibility of deriving aerosol optical thickness and phase function values for certain scattering angles from solar radiances recorded over the oceans is examined. Radiative transfer simulations results for the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instruments are presented. These results indicate that an iterative procedure should be used for the simultaneous determination of the two quantities

Keywords

aerosols; air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric light propagation; atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; light scattering; remote sensing; AVHRR; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; MODIS; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer; aerosol; air pollution; iterative procedure; light scattering; light scattering phase function; marine atmosphere; measurement technique; meteorology; optical remote sensing; optical thickness; optics; radiative transfer simulation; revised approach; scattering angle; simultaneous determination; solar radiance; Aerosols; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; MODIS; Oceans; Optical imaging; Optical recording; Optical scattering; Radiometry; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.609143

Filename

609143