A theoretical study of the effect of subsurface oceanic bubbles on the enhanced aerosol optical depth band over the southern oceans as detected from MODIS and MISR

Christensen, M.; Zhang, J.; Reid, J. S.; Zhang, X.; Hyer, E. J.; Smirnov, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2149-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2149-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2149-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 5

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21 May 2015

Research article |

| 21 May 2015

A theoretical study of the effect of subsurface oceanic bubbles on the enhanced aerosol optical depth band over the southern oceans as detected from MODIS and MISR

M. Christensen, J. Zhang, J. S. Reid, X. Zhang, E. J. Hyer, and A. Smirnov

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Final revised paper (published on 21 May 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 19 Dec 2014)

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RC C4453: 'Review of Christensen et al.', Andrew Sayer, 06 Jan 2015
- AC C5351: 'Response to Dr. Sayer', Jianglong Zhang, 18 Apr 2015
RC C5141: 'A theoretical study of the effect of subsurface oceanic bubbles on the enhanced aerosol optical depth band over the southern oceans as detected from MODIS', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Mar 2015
- AC C5352: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Jianglong Zhang, 18 Apr 2015

Short summary

Submerged oceanic bubbles, which could have a much longer life span than whitecaps or bubble rafts, have been hypothesized to increase the water-leaving radiance and thus affect satellite-based estimates of water-leaving radiance to non-trivial levels. This study explores this effect further to determine if such bubbles are of sufficient magnitude to impact satellite aerosol optical depth retrievals through perturbation of the lower boundary conditions.