Directionally dependent Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (DLER) of the Earth's surface measured by the GOME-2 satellite instruments

Tilstra, Lieuwe G.; Tuinder, Olaf N. E.; Wang, Ping; Stammes, Piet

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4219-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4219-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4219-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Research article

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08 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 08 Jun 2021

Directionally dependent Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (DLER) of the Earth's surface measured by the GOME-2 satellite instruments

Lieuwe G. Tilstra, Olaf N. E. Tuinder, Ping Wang, and Piet Stammes

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4219-2021-supplement

Data sets

GOME-2 surface LER database description TEMIS https://www.temis.nl/surface/albedo/gome2_ler.php

Short summary

In this paper we introduce the new concept of directionally dependent Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (DLER) of the Earth's surface retrieved from satellite observations. We apply this concept to data of the GOME-2 satellite instruments to create a global database of the reflectivity of the Earth's surface, providing surface DLER for 26 wavelength bands between 328 and 772 nm as a function of the satellite viewing angle via a second-degree polynomial parameterisation.