A directional surface reflectance climatology determined from TROPOMI observations

Tilstra, Lieuwe G.; de Graaf, Martin; Trees, Victor J. H.; Litvinov, Pavel; Dubovik, Oleg; Stammes, Piet

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2235-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2235-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2235-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Research article

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17 Apr 2024

Research article |

| 17 Apr 2024

A directional surface reflectance climatology determined from TROPOMI observations

Lieuwe G. Tilstra, Martin de Graaf, Victor J. H. Trees, Pavel Litvinov, Oleg Dubovik, and Piet Stammes

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2235-2024-supplement

Data sets

TROPOMI surface reflectivity climatology Lieuwe G. Tilstra et al. https://doi.org/10.21944/tropomi-surface-albedo

Short summary

This paper introduces a new surface albedo climatology of directionally dependent Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (DLER) observed by TROPOMI on the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite. The database contains monthly fields of DLER for 21 wavelength bands at a relatively high spatial resolution of 0.125 by 0.125 degrees. The anisotropy of the surface reflection is handled by parameterisation of the viewing angle dependence.