[HTML][HTML] Aerosol measurements by SPEXone on the NASA PACE mission: expected retrieval capabilities

OP Hasekamp, G Fu, SP Rusli, L Wu, A Di Noia… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract SPEXone is a Multi-Angle Polarimeter instrument that is baselined to fly on the
NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, to be launched in …

SPEX airborne spectropolarimeter calibration and performance

JM Smit, JHH Rietjens, G van Harten, A Di Noia… - Applied …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
To improve our understanding of the complex role of aerosols in the climate system and on
air quality, measurements are needed of optical and microphysical aerosol. From many …

Atmospheric aerosol characterization with a ground-based SPEX spectropolarimetric instrument

G Van Harten, J De Boer, JHH Rietjens… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
Characterization of atmospheric aerosols is important for understanding their impact on
health and climate. A wealth of aerosol parameters can be retrieved from multi-angle, multi …

Retrieving aerosol characteristics from the PACE mission, part 2: multi-angle and polarimetry

LA Remer, K Knobelspiesse, PW Zhai, F Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new
opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary multi …

Retrieval of aerosol scattering and absorption properties from photopolarimetric observations over the ocean during the CLAMS experiment

J Chowdhary, B Cairns, MI Mishchenko… - Journal of the …, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
The extensive set of measurements performed during the Chesapeake Lighthouse and
Aircraft Measurements for Satellites (CLAMS) experiment provides a unique opportunity to …

Retrieval of aerosol properties over the ocean using multispectral and multiangle photopolarimetric measurements from the Research Scanning Polarimeter

J Chowdhary, B Cairns, M Mishchenko… - Geophysical research …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The evaluation of the direct and indirect aerosol forcings of climate requires precise
knowledge of the aerosol optical thickness, size distribution, chemical composition, and …

Aerosol retrieval from multiangle, multispectral photopolarimetric measurements: importance of spectral range and angular resolution

L Wu, O Hasekamp… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
We investigated the importance of spectral range and angular resolution for aerosol retrieval
from multiangle photopolarimetric measurements over land. For this purpose, we use an …

Satellite retrieval of aerosol properties over the ocean using polarization as well as intensity of reflected sunlight

MI Mishchenko, LD Travis - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Most current and proposed satellite remote sensing of tropospheric aerosols relies upon
radiance measurements that are interpreted using algorithms that determine best fits to …

Research scanning polarimeter and airborne usage for remote sensing of aerosols

B Cairns, EE Russell, JD LaVeigne… - … science and remote …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Accurate multi-spectral, multi-angle polarimetric measurements are a key remote sensing
tool for the determination of the burden and microphysical properties of atmospheric …

Intercomparison of airborne multi-angle polarimeter observations from the Polarimeter Definition Experiment

K Knobelspiesse, Q Tan, C Bruegge, B Cairns… - Applied …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In early 2013, three airborne polarimeters were flown on the high altitude NASA ER-2
aircraft in California for the Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX). PODEX supported …