Retrieval of aerosol microphysical and optical properties over land using a multimode approach

Fu, Guangliang; Hasekamp, Otto

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6627-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6627-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6627-2018

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

Research article

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17 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 17 Dec 2018

Retrieval of aerosol microphysical and optical properties over land using a multimode approach

Guangliang Fu and Otto Hasekamp

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'RC', Michael Mishchenko, 20 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Guangliang Fu, 29 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Referee comment', Ruediger Lang, 02 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Guangliang Fu, 29 Nov 2018

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AR by Guangliang Fu on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Dec 2018) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Guangliang Fu on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2018)

Short summary

We implement a multimode approach in which each mode has fixed effective radius and effective variance. In this way the algorithm obtains more flexibility in describing the aerosol size distribution and avoids the high nonlinear dependence of the forward model on the aerosol size parameters. The synthetic and real data experiments show that multimode retrievals are good alternatives to the parametric two-mode approach.