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Improved inversion of aerosol components in the atmospheric column from remote sensing data
Ying Zhang
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
Zhengqiang Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
Yu Chen
Public Meteorological Service Center, China Meteorological
Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Gerrit de Leeuw
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
R&D Satellite
Observations, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), 3730AE De Bilt, the Netherlands
Chi Zhang
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
Yisong Xie
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
Kaitao Li
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
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Observation of atmospheric aerosol components plays an important role in reducing uncertainty in climate assessment. In this study, an improved remote sensing method which can better distinguish scattering components is developed, and the aerosol components in the atmospheric column over China are retrieved based on the Sun–sky radiometer Observation NETwork (SONET). The component distribution shows there could be a sea salt component in northwest China from a paleomarine source in desert land.
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