Evaluation of satellite-based aerosol datasets and the CAMS reanalysis over the ocean utilizing shipborne reference observations

Witthuhn, Jonas; Hünerbein, Anja; Deneke, Hartwig

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1387-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1387-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1387-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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27 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 27 Mar 2020

Evaluation of satellite-based aerosol datasets and the CAMS reanalysis over the ocean utilizing shipborne reference observations

Jonas Witthuhn, Anja Hünerbein, and Hartwig Deneke

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RC1: 'Review for `Evaluation of satellite-based aerosol datasets and the CAMS reanalysis over ocean utilizing shipborne reference observations'', Anonymous Referee #4, 25 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Authors response on RC1 from Reviewer 4', Jonas Witthuhn, 07 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer Comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 29 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Authors response on RC2 from Reviewer 3', Jonas Witthuhn, 07 Feb 2020
RC3: 'review', Stefan Kinne, 10 Nov 2019
- AC3: 'Authors response on RC3 from Stefan Kinne', Jonas Witthuhn, 07 Feb 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jonas Witthuhn on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Feb 2020) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

Short summary

Reliable reference measurements over ocean are essential for the evaluation and improvement of satellite- and model-based aerosol datasets. Here, a uniqe set of shipborne reference aerosol products obtained from Microtops sunphotometer and GUVis-3511 shadowband radiometer observations are compared to aerosol products from the MODIS and SEVIRI satellite sensors, and the CAMS reanalysis over the Atlantic Ocean. The present evaluation highlights the importance of an aerosol-type based analysis.