Another difference appeared when the first session started on Friday morning. The conference room was set up with circular tables, each with power strips for laptops, and only a few attendees were not using a laptop. USENIX had provided Aeronet wireless setup via the hotel’s T1 link, and people were busy typing and compiling. Chris Mason of OSDN noticed that Dave Miller had written a utility to...

The manuscript describes a method to obtain spectral aerosol optical thicknesses from measurements with a spectroradiometer in the UV-visible range. The direct solar light is inferred from the difference between total radiation and diffuse radiation. The latter is obtained by the use of a sun blocking disc. An error budget is presented. The results are validated against the measurements with a ...

The performance of various empirical linear models to estimate the concentrations of surface-level particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 μm (PM10) was evaluated using Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sun photometer and Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data collected in Seoul during the Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Network (DRAGON)-Asia campaig...

[1] Evaluation of concentrations predicted by air quality models is needed to ensure that model results are compatible with observations. In this study aerosol properties derived from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model-simulated aerosol mass concentrations are compared with routine data from NASA satellite-borne Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor aboard ...

A high-resolution global aerosol model (Oslo CTM2) driven by meteorological data and allowing a comparison with a variety of aerosol observations is used to simulate radiative forcing (RF) of the direct aerosol effect. The model simulates all main aerosol components, including several secondary components such as nitrate and secondary organic carbon. The model reproduces the main chemical compo...

The presence of aerosol has resulted in serious limitations in the data coverage and large uncertainties in retrieving carbon dioxide (CO2) amounts from satellite measurements. For this reason, an aerosol retrieval algorithm was developed for the Thermal and Near-infrared Sensor for carbon Observation-Cloud and Aerosol Imager (TANSO-CAI) launched in January 2009 on board the Greenhouse Gases Ob...

Abstract The Ocean Color Component of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET-OC) supports activities related to ocean color such as validation satellite data products, assessment atmospheric correction schemes, and evaluation bio-optical models through globally distributed standardized measurements water-leaving radiance aerosol optical depth. In view duly assisting AERONET-OC user community, thi...

Abstract. Monitoring and describing the spatiotemporal variability in dust aerosols is crucial for understanding their multiple effects, related feedbacks, impacts within Earth system. This study describes development of ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS) data set. MIDAS provides columnar daily optical depth (DOD) at 550 nm a global scale fine spatial resolution (0.1? × 0.1?) over 15-year period (2003–...