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Research article
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06 May 2021
Research article |
| 06 May 2021
| 06 May 2021
AEROCOM and AEROSAT AAOD and SSA study – Part 1: Evaluation and intercomparison of satellite measurements
Department of Earth Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Oleg Dubovik
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Université de Lille, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Otto Hasekamp
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Omar Torres
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Hiren Jethva
Universities Space Research Association – GESTAR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Peter J. T. Leonard
ADNET Systems, Inc., Suite A100, 7515 Mission Drive, Lanham, MD 20706, USA
Pavel Litvinov
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Université de Lille, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Jens Redemann
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Yohei Shinozuka
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
Gerrit de Leeuw
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Climate Research Programme, Helsinki, Finland
currently at: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), R&D Satellite Observations, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Stefan Kinne
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Thomas Popp
German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center Atmosphere, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Michael Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43, Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Philip Stier
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
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.
Absorptive aerosol has a potentially large impact on climate change. We evaluate and...
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