Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2067-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2067-2023
Research article
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19 Apr 2023
Research article |  | 19 Apr 2023

The impact and estimation of uncertainty correlation for multi-angle polarimetric remote sensing of aerosols and ocean color

Meng Gao, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Bryan A. Franz, Peng-Wang Zhai, Brian Cairns, Xiaoguang Xu, and J. Vanderlei Martins

Data sets

Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar Campaign ACEPOL Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACEPOL2017/DATA001

Short summary
Multi-angle polarimetric measurements have been shown to greatly improve the remote sensing capability of aerosols and help atmospheric correction for ocean color retrievals. However, the uncertainty correlations among different measurement angles have not been well characterized. In this work, we provided a practical framework to evaluate the impact of the angular uncertainty correlation in retrieval results and a method to directly estimate correlation strength from retrieval residuals.