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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3713-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3713-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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21 Mar 2022
Research article |
| 21 Mar 2022
| 21 Mar 2022
Identifying chemical aerosol signatures using optical suborbital observations: how much can optical properties tell us about aerosol composition?
Meloë S. F. Kacenelenbogen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Qian Tan
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Sharon P. Burton
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Otto P. Hasekamp
SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Karl D. Froyd
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309 USA
Yohei Shinozuka
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Andreas J. Beyersdorf
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), San Bernardino, CA 92407, USA
Luke Ziemba
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Kenneth L. Thornhill
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Jack E. Dibb
Department of Geochemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Taylor Shingler
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Armin Sorooshian
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Reed W. Espinosa
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Vanderlei Martins
Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Jose L. Jimenez
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309 USA
Pedro Campuzano-Jost
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309 USA
Joshua P. Schwarz
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Matthew S. Johnson
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Jens Redemann
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Gregory L. Schuster
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Data sets
SEAC4RS data G. Chen https://doi.org/10.5067/Aircraft/SEAC4RS/Aerosol-TraceGas-Cloud
Short summary
The impact of aerosols on Earth's radiation budget and human health is important and strongly depends on their composition. One desire of our scientific community is to derive the composition of the aerosol from satellite sensors. However, satellites observe aerosol optical properties (and not aerosol composition) based on remote sensing instrumentation. This study assesses how much aerosol optical properties can tell us about aerosol composition.
The impact of aerosols on Earth's radiation budget and human health is important and strongly...
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