Developing Aerosol Height Product from MODIS and Synergy of MODIS and CALIPSO Measurements for Global Application

Author

Chu, D. Allen ; Szykman, James ; Kittaka, Chieko ; Chin, Mian ; Liu, H.-C. ; Remer, Lorraine ; Al-Saadi, Jassim ; Winker, David

Author_Institution

Goddard Earth Sci. & Technol. Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

Aerosol vertical distribution is critical in many perspectives of atmospheric research. Lidar instrumentation is currently considered as the only means in providing the ground truths of aerosol vertical profiles. The MODIS normalized aerosol height index (NAHI) can be used routinely to estimate aerosol layer height with the same coverage of MODIS AOD, creating a virtual 3-D view of daily aerosol fields. The synergy of the wide-coverage MODIS aerosol height index and high-precision CALIPSO aerosol vertical profile enables us to constrain NAHI and also translate the estimated errors to the entire MODIS swath.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric techniques; optical radar; radiometry; remote sensing by radar; CALIPSO; Lidar instrumentation; MODIS AOD; aerosol height product; aerosol vertical distribution; normalized aerosol height index; Aerosols; Infrared spectra; Laser radar; MODIS; NASA; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Solar radiation; Space technology; Terrestrial atmosphere; Aerosol; Remote Sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779718

Filename

4779718