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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-47-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-47-2016
Research article
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14 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2016

Investigating the frequency and interannual variability in global above-cloud aerosol characteristics with CALIOP and OMI

R. Alfaro-Contreras, J. Zhang, J. R. Campbell, and J. S. Reid

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The spatial distributions and trends of above-cloud aerosol (ACA) events are studied using seven and a half years of MODIS, OMI, and CALIOP data. The active- (CALIOP) and passive-based (MODIS-OMI) methods have their advantages and caveats, and thus both are used to get a thorough and robust comparison of ACA distribution and climatology. For the first time, baseline above-cloud CALIOP aerosol optical depth and OMI aerosol index thresholds are derived and examined for each sensor.
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