Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-161-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-161-2018
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10 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2018

Error sources in the retrieval of aerosol information over bright surfaces from satellite measurements in the oxygen A band

Swadhin Nanda, Martin de Graaf, Maarten Sneep, Johan F. de Haan, Piet Stammes, Abram F. J. Sanders, Olaf Tuinder, J. Pepijn Veefkind, and Pieternel F. Levelt

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Estimating aerosol layer height in the atmosphere from satellite data in the oxygen A band (758–770 nm) over land is challenging over land, since the surface is generally very bright in this wavelength region. This paper discusses an interplay between the surface and the atmosphere in their contributions to the top-of-atmosphere reflectance spectrum and the consequent biases obtained while estimating aerosol layer height, using synthetic data and real data from the GOME-2 satellite instrument.