Remote sensing of aerosol water fraction, dry size distribution and soluble fraction using multi-angle, multi-spectral polarimetry

van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan; Hasekamp, Otto P.; Cairns, Brian; Schuster, Gregory L.; Stamnes, Snorre; Shook, Michael; Ziemba, Luke

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7411-2022

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22 Dec 2022

Research article |

| 22 Dec 2022

Remote sensing of aerosol water fraction, dry size distribution and soluble fraction using multi-angle, multi-spectral polarimetry

Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Otto P. Hasekamp, Brian Cairns, Gregory L. Schuster, Snorre Stamnes, Michael Shook, and Luke Ziemba

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7411-2022-supplement

Data sets

Clouds, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment J. S. Reid and G. Chen https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/CAMP2EX2018/DATA001

Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment A. Sorooshian and G. Chen https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACTIVATE/DATA001

Short summary

The strong variability in the chemistry of atmospheric particulate matter affects the amount of water aerosols absorb and their effect on climate. We present a remote sensing method to determine the amount of water in particulate matter. Its application to airborne instruments indicates that the observed aerosols have rather low water contents and low fractions of soluble particles. Future satellites will be able to yield global aerosol water uptake data.