The sensitivity of the Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission to dust aerosols: a pseudo-observations analysis

Sellitto, Pasquale; Eremenko, Maxim; Formenti, Paola; Alalam, Perla; Höpfner, Michael; Di Biagio, Claudia

doi:10.5194/amt-19-2751-2026

Articles | Volume 19, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2751-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2751-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 8

Research article

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23 Apr 2026

Research article |

| 23 Apr 2026

The sensitivity of the Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission to dust aerosols: a pseudo-observations analysis

Pasquale Sellitto, Maxim Eremenko, Paola Formenti, Perla Alalam, Michael Höpfner, and Claudia Di Biagio

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2751-2026-supplement

Data sets

FORUM and IASI-NG pseudo-observations Pasquale Sellitto https://doi.org/10.57932/c54d9d54-3b6e-4e81-a65a-f154796369e1

Short summary

The Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission will bring the first satellite instrument capable of observing the Earth's far infrared (FIR) spectra with a high spectral resolution. FORUM will crucially contribute to water vapour, clouds and surface observations. We found that FORUM will provide also a significant sensitivity to dust aerosol, especially in cases of large burdens of mid-to-long-range transported plumes of dust in the free and upper troposphere.