Variability of absorption and optical properties of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations

O Dubovik, B Holben, TF Eck… - Journal of the …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Aerosol radiative forcing is a critical, though variable and uncertain, component of the global
climate. Yet climate models rely on sparse information of the aerosol optical properties. In …

Atmospheric correction of satellite ocean-color imagery during the PACE era

RJ Frouin, BA Franz, A Ibrahim… - Frontiers in earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will carry into space the
Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), a spectrometer measuring at 5 nm spectral resolution in the …

Variability of aerosol parameters over Kanpur, northern India

RP Singh, S Dey, SN Tripathi, V Tare… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol optical properties and the spectral behavior of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) over
Kanpur, an urban‐industrial city in the Ganga basin, have been presented for the first time …

Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid‐Pacific

TF Eck, BN Holben, O Dubovik… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The column‐integrated optical properties of aerosol in the central eastern region of Asia and
midtropical Pacific were investigated based on Sun/sky radiometer measurements made at …

Dust storms and their horizontal dust loading in the Sistan region, Iran

A Rashki, DG Kaskaoutis, CJW Rautenbach… - Aeolian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The Sistan region in southeast Iran is considered as one of the most active dust source
regions in South west Asia. The strong “Levar” winds in summer favor the uplift of large …

Development and evaluation of the BSC-DREAM8b dust regional model over Northern Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East

S Basart, C Pérez, S Nickovic, E Cuevas… - Tellus B: Chemical …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The BSC-DREAM8b model and its predecessor are analysed in terms of aerosol optical
depth (AOD) for 2004 over Northern Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We …

Aerosol climatology over four AERONET sites: An overview

HD Kambezidis, DG Kaskaoutis - Atmospheric Environment, 2008 - Elsevier
A 3-year data set from the AERONET sunphotometers is used to remotely sense the aerosol
optical depth (AOD) and the Ångström wavelength exponent (α) in four key locations …

Comparison of size and morphological measurements of coarse mode dust particles from Africa

JS Reid, HH Jonsson, HB Maring… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A multitude of sensitivity studies in the literature point to the importance of proper chemical
and morphological characterization of particles when the radiative impacts of airborne dusts …

Variability of aerosol and spectral lidar and backscatter and extinction ratios of key aerosol types derived from selected Aerosol Robotic Network locations

C Cattrall, J Reagan, K Thome… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The lidar (extinction‐to‐backscatter) ratios at 0.55 and 1.02 μm and the spectral lidar,
extinction, and backscatter ratios of climatically relevant aerosol species are computed on …

Aerosol characterization in Northern Africa, Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean basin and Middle East from direct-sun AERONET observations

S Basart, C Pérez, E Cuevas… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
We provide an atmospheric aerosol characterization for North Africa, Northeastern Atlantic,
Mediterranean and Middle East based on the analysis of quality-assured direct-sun …