Aerosol optical depth retrievals over the Konza Prairie
- California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena (United States)
- ST Systems Corp., Lanham, MD (United States)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (United States)
This work is part of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment (FIFE), an international land-surface-atmosphere experiment aimed at improving the way climate models represent energy, water, heat, and carbon exchanges, and improving the utilization of satellite based remote sensing to monitor such parameters. This paper reports on aerosol optical depth measurements made by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory over FIFE. This was one of five systems to make such measurements. A sunphotometer was used to make the measurements, and considerable discussion is presented on the instrumentation and the data processing algorithm which is part of this system. The measured optical depth data is now used to correct remotely sensed satellite and aircraft data. Comparisons were made between the JPL instrument and other instrumentation. Good calibrations were obtained prior to the 1989 campaign, and therefore spatial inhomogeneities could be determined.
- OSTI ID:
- 6034646
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States) Vol. 97:D17; ISSN JGREA2; ISSN 0148-0227
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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