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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-185-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-185-2022
Research article
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11 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2022

Optimization of Aeolus' aerosol optical properties by maximum-likelihood estimation

Frithjof Ehlers, Thomas Flament, Alain Dabas, Dimitri Trapon, Adrien Lacour, Holger Baars, and Anne Grete Straume-Lindner

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The Aeolus satellite observes the Earth and can vertically detect any kind of particles (aerosols or clouds) in the atmosphere below it. These observations are typically very noisy, which needs to be accounted for. This work dampens the noise in Aeolus' aerosol and cloud data, which are provided publicly by the ESA, so that the scientific community can make better use of it. This makes the data potentially more useful for weather prediction and climate research.
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