Book chapter
Chapter 1 - Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosol Height
Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation, pp.1-22
Elsevier Inc
2018
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-810437-8.00001-3
Abstract
Aerosol height is one of the most essential variables that govern the impact of aerosols on the earth's climate and environment. Detailed aerosol backscattering profiles can be probed by active remote sensing techniques using space-borne LIDAR, but its spatial coverage is limited as a “curtain” captured along the LIDAR's suborbital track. Passive remote sensing of aerosol height, while less accurate and in reduced detail, can add a valuable augmentation due to its global spatial coverage. The task of this chapter is to review progresses in the recent development of passive techniques for the retrieval of aerosol layer height and profile, which includes stereo photogrammetry, the use of multiangle polarization in the near-ultraviolet (UV) bands, the spectroscopy of the oxygen absorption bands, and the thermal-infrared (IR) sounding.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Chapter 1 - Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosol Height
- Creators
- Xiaoguang Xu - University of Iowa, Iowa Technology InstituteJun Wang - University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical EngineeringYi Wang - University of Iowa, Iowa Technology InstituteAlexander Kokhanovsky - EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation, pp.1-22
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-810437-8.00001-3
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Iowa Technology Institute; Physics and Astronomy; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984102203302771
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