Atmospheric effects of the Mt Pinatubo eruption

MP McCormick, LW Thomason, CR Trepte - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
Abstract The eruption of Mt Pinatubo in June 1991 caused the largest perturbation this
century to the participate content of the stratosphere. The radiative influence of the injected …

Advancements in the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Version 3 database–automated near-real-time quality control algorithm with improved cloud screening for …

DM Giles, A Sinyuk, MG Sorokin… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) has provided highly accurate, ground-truth
measurements of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) using Cimel Electronique Sun–sky …

Stratospheric aerosol particles and solar-radiation management

FD Pope, P Braesicke, RG Grainger, M Kalberer… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
The deliberate injection of particles into the stratosphere has been suggested as a possible
geoengineering scheme to mitigate the global warming aspect of climate change. Injected …

AERONET—A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization

BN Holben, TF Eck, I Slutsker, D Tanré, JP Buis… - Remote sensing of …, 1998 - Elsevier
The concept and description of a remote sensing aerosol monitoring network initiated by
NASA, developed to support NASA, CNES, and NASDA's Earth satellite systems under the …

An extended AVHRR 8‐km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data

CJ Tucker, JE Pinzon, ME Brown… - … journal of remote …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Daily daytime Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 4‐km global area
coverage data have been processed to produce a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index …

Wavelength dependence of the optical depth of biomass burning, urban, and desert dust aerosols

TF Eck, BN Holben, JS Reid, O Dubovik… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The Angstrom wavelength exponent α, which is the slope of the logarithm of aerosol optical
depth (τa) versus the logarithm of wavelength (λ), is commonly used to characterize the …

An emerging ground‐based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET

BN Holben, D Tanré, A Smirnov, TF Eck… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term measurements by the AERONET program of spectral aerosol optical depth,
precipitable water, and derived Angstrom exponent were analyzed and compiled into an …

Accuracy assessments of aerosol optical properties retrieved from Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Sun and sky radiance measurements

O Dubovik, A Smirnov, BN Holben… - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Sensitivity studies are conducted regarding aerosol optical property retrieval from radiances
measured by ground‐based Sun‐sky scanning radiometers of the Aerosol Robotic Network …

Reflectance quantities in optical remote sensing—Definitions and case studies

G Schaepman-Strub, ME Schaepman… - Remote sensing of …, 2006 - Elsevier
The remote sensing community puts major efforts into calibration and validation of sensors,
measurements, and derived products to quantify and reduce uncertainties. Given recent …

Cloud-screening and quality control algorithms for the AERONET database

A Smirnov, BN Holben, TF Eck, O Dubovik… - Remote sensing of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Automatic globally distributed networks for monitoring aerosol optical depth provide
measurements of natural and anthropogenic aerosol loading, which is important in many …