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Research article
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21 Mar 2011
Research article |
| 21 Mar 2011
Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals
A. Smirnov
Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, Maryland, USA
Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
B. N. Holben
Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
D. M. Giles
Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, Maryland, USA
Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
I. Slutsker
Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, Maryland, USA
Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
N. T. O'Neill
CARTEL, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
T. F. Eck
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
A. Macke
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
P. Croot
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany
Y. Courcoux
L'Observatoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère de la Réunion (OPAR), Université de la Réunion, Saint Denis de la Réunion, France
S. M. Sakerin
Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Tomsk, Russia
T. J. Smyth
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
T. Zielinski
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
G. Zibordi
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
J. I. Goes
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
M. J. Harvey
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
P. K. Quinn
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA
N. B. Nelson
Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
V. F. Radionov
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia
C. M. Duarte
IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Esporles (Mallorca), Spain
R. Losno
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Université de Paris 7 et Université de Paris 12, Creteil, France
J. Sciare
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
K. J. Voss
Physics Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
S. Kinne
Institute for Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
N. R. Nalli
NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), Camp Springs, Maryland, USA
E. Joseph
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
K. Krishna Moorthy
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, India
D. S. Covert
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
S. K. Gulev
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
G. Milinevsky
Space Physics Laboratory, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
P. Larouche
Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada
S. Belanger
Département de biologie, chimie et géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada
E. Horne
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
M. Chin
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
L. A. Remer
Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
R. A. Kahn
Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
J. S. Reid
Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California, USA
M. Schulz
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
C. L. Heald
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
J. Zhang
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
K. Lapina
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
R. G. Kleidman
Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, USA
J. Griesfeller
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
B. J. Gaitley
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Q. Tan
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
T. L. Diehl
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Abstract. The Maritime Aerosol Network (MAN) has been collecting data over the oceans since November 2006. Over 80 cruises were completed through early 2010 with deployments continuing. Measurement areas included various parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Northern and Southern Pacific Ocean, the South Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and inland seas. MAN deploys Microtops hand-held sunphotometers and utilizes a calibration procedure and data processing traceable to AERONET. Data collection included areas that previously had no aerosol optical depth (AOD) coverage at all, particularly vast areas of the Southern Ocean. The MAN data archive provides a valuable resource for aerosol studies in maritime environments. In the current paper we present results of AOD measurements over the oceans, and make a comparison with satellite AOD retrievals and model simulations.
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How to cite. Smirnov, A., Holben, B. N., Giles, D. M., Slutsker, I., O'Neill, N. T., Eck, T. F., Macke, A., Croot, P., Courcoux, Y., Sakerin, S. M., Smyth, T. J., Zielinski, T., Zibordi, G., Goes, J. I., Harvey, M. J., Quinn, P. K., Nelson, N. B., Radionov, V. F., Duarte, C. M., Losno, R., Sciare, J., Voss, K. J., Kinne, S., Nalli, N. R., Joseph, E., Krishna Moorthy, K., Covert, D. S., Gulev, S. K., Milinevsky, G., Larouche, P., Belanger, S., Horne, E., Chin, M., Remer, L. A., Kahn, R. A., Reid, J. S., Schulz, M., Heald, C. L., Zhang, J., Lapina, K., Kleidman, R. G., Griesfeller, J., Gaitley, B. J., Tan, Q., and Diehl, T. L.: Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 583–597, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-583-2011, 2011.