Retrieval of aerosol properties from Airborne Hyper-Angular  Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP) observations  during ACEPOL 2017

Puthukkudy, Anin; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Remer, Lorraine A.; Xu, Xiaoguang; Dubovik, Oleg; Litvinov, Pavel; McBride, Brent; Burton, Sharon; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5207-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5207-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5207-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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05 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 05 Oct 2020

Retrieval of aerosol properties from Airborne Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP) observations during ACEPOL 2017

Anin Puthukkudy, J. Vanderlei Martins, Lorraine A. Remer, Xiaoguang Xu, Oleg Dubovik, Pavel Litvinov, Brent McBride, Sharon Burton, and Henrique M. J. Barbosa

Data sets

Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar Campaign ACEPOL Science Team https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/ cgi-bin/ArcView/acepol

AirHARP mission gallery for ACEPOL 2017 AirHARP science team https://sites.google.com/view/airharp-acepol/home

AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) project AERONET Team https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Short summary

In this work, we report the demonstration and validation of the aerosol properties retrieved using AirHARP and GRASP for data from the NASA ACEPOL campaign 2017. These results serve as a proxy for the scale and detail of aerosol retrievals that are anticipated from future space mission data, as HARP CubeSat (mission begins 2020) and HARP2 (aboard the NASA PACE mission with the launch in 2023) are near duplicates of AirHARP and are expected to provide the same level of aerosol characterization.