Simultaneous determination of aerosol optical thickness and water-leaving radiance from multispectral measurements in coastal waters

Shi, Chong; Nakajima, Teruyuki

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3865-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3865-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3865-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

Research article

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20 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 20 Mar 2018

Simultaneous determination of aerosol optical thickness and water-leaving radiance from multispectral measurements in coastal waters

Chong Shi and Teruyuki Nakajima

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comment on ” Simultaneous determination of aerosol optical thickness and water leaving radiance from multispectral measurements in coastal waters”', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Dec 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1 comments', Chong Shi, 30 Jan 2018
SC1: 'Short Comment', Thomas Schroeder, 29 Dec 2017
- AC3: 'Response to Thomas Schroeder', Chong Shi, 30 Jan 2018
SC2: 'Comments/questions on retrieval method and results', Andrew Sayer, 03 Jan 2018
- AC4: 'Response to A.M. Sayer', Chong Shi, 30 Jan 2018
RC2: 'Review of the paper acp-2017-1000', Zhanqing Li, 11 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2 comments', Chong Shi, 30 Jan 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Chong Shi on behalf of the Authors (31 Jan 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Feb 2018) by Jianping Huang

AR by Chong Shi on behalf of the Authors (08 Feb 2018)

Short summary

An algorithm for the simultaneous retrieval of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and normalized water-leaving radiance (nL_w) is proposed using multispectral satellite measurements. Retrieval accuracy is validated by the in situ measurements selected from eight sites over different waters. Results show more accurate spectral AOT and nL_w are derived by current method than the standard atmospheric correction scheme, except nL_w at 488 nm. Optimization of this approach is also required in future work.