The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb Profiler (LP) Version 1 aerosol extinction retrieval algorithm:  theoretical basis

Loughman, Robert; Bhartia, Pawan K.; Chen, Zhong; Xu, Philippe; Nyaku, Ernest; Taha, Ghassan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2633-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2633-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2633-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

Research article

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04 May 2018

Research article |

| 04 May 2018

The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb Profiler (LP) Version 1 aerosol extinction retrieval algorithm: theoretical basis

Robert Loughman, Pawan K. Bhartia, Zhong Chen, Philippe Xu, Ernest Nyaku, and Ghassan Taha

Data sets

Ozone Multi-mission ozone measurements NASA https://ozoneaq.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ozone/

Short summary

The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb Profiler (LP) Version 1 algorithm retrieves aerosol extinction profiles at 675 nm by iteration, based on comparisons between the measured and calculated radiance profiles (assuming an aerosol size distribution). The most significant error source is uncertainty about the aerosol phase function. Horizontal variations in aerosol extinction may also limit the quality of the retrieved aerosol extinction profiles.