OMPS LP Version 2.0 multi-wavelength aerosol extinction coefficient retrieval algorithm

Taha, Ghassan; Loughman, Robert; Zhu, Tong; Thomason, Larry; Kar, Jayanta; Rieger, Landon; Bourassa, Adam

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1015-2021

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10 Feb 2021

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OMPS LP Version 2.0 multi-wavelength aerosol extinction coefficient retrieval algorithm

Ghassan Taha, Robert Loughman, Tong Zhu, Larry Thomason, Jayanta Kar, Landon Rieger, and Adam Bourassa

Data sets

OMPS-NPP L2 LP Aerosol Extinction Vertical Profile swath daily 3slit V2 G. Taha https://doi.org/10.5067/CX2B9NW6FI27

SAGE III/ISS L2 Solar Event Species Profiles (HDF-EOS) V051 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/ISS/SAGEIII/SOLAR_HDF4_L2-V5.1

CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Stratospheric Aerosol Profiles Standard V1-00 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L3_STRATOSPHERIC_APRO-STANDARD-V1-00

OSIRIS on ODIN C. Roth https://research-groups.usask.ca/osiris/data-products.php#Download

Short summary

This work describes the newly released OMPS LP aerosol extinction profile multi-wavelength Version 2.0 algorithm and dataset. It is shown that the V2.0 aerosols exhibit significant improvements in OMPS LP retrieval performance in the Southern Hemisphere and at lower altitudes. The new product is compared to the SAGE III/ISS, OSIRIS and CALIPSO missions and shown to be of good quality and suitable for scientific studies.