AEROCOM and AEROSAT AAOD and SSA study – Part 1: Evaluation and intercomparison of satellite measurements

Schutgens, Nick; Dubovik, Oleg; Hasekamp, Otto; Torres, Omar; Jethva, Hiren; Leonard, Peter J. T.; Litvinov, Pavel; Redemann, Jens; Shinozuka, Yohei; de Leeuw, Gerrit; Kinne, Stefan; Popp, Thomas; Schulz, Michael; Stier, Philip

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6895-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6895-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6895-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 9

Research article

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06 May 2021

Research article |

| 06 May 2021

AEROCOM and AEROSAT AAOD and SSA study – Part 1: Evaluation and intercomparison of satellite measurements

Nick Schutgens, Oleg Dubovik, Otto Hasekamp, Omar Torres, Hiren Jethva, Peter J. T. Leonard, Pavel Litvinov, Jens Redemann, Yohei Shinozuka, Gerrit de Leeuw, Stefan Kinne, Thomas Popp, Michael Schulz, and Philip Stier

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SC1: 'Comment', Sebastien Garrigues, 10 Dec 2020
- SC2: 'Reply to Sebastien Garrigues', Nick Schutgens, 11 Dec 2020
RC1: 'Review of Schutgens', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Nick Schutgens, 27 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Absorption from satellite retreivals - Schutgens et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jan 2021
- AC4: 'Reply on RC2', Nick Schutgens, 11 Feb 2021
RC3: 'Review of “AEROCOM/AEROSAT AAOT & SSA study, part I: evaluation and intercomparison of satellite measurements” by Schutgens et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 11 Jan 2021
- AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Nick Schutgens, 11 Feb 2021
RC4: 'Comment on "AEROCOM/AEROSAT AAOT & SSA study, part I: evaluation and intercomparison of satellite measurements" by Nick Schutgens et al.', Anonymous Referee #4, 18 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC4', Nick Schutgens, 27 Jan 2021

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

AR by Nick Schutgens on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Feb 2021) by Matthias Tesche

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (08 Mar 2021)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Mar 2021) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Nick Schutgens on behalf of the Authors (19 Mar 2021) Manuscript

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Absorptive aerosol has a potentially large impact on climate change. We evaluate and intercompare four global satellite datasets of absorptive aerosol optical depth (AAOD) and single-scattering albedo (SSA). We show that these datasets show reasonable correlations with the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) reference, although significant biases remain. In a follow-up paper we show that these observations nevertheless can be used for model evaluation.