Aerosol retrievals from METEOSAT-8 - CM SAF

SAF on Climate Monitoring Visiting Scientists Report Doc. No: 1.0
Issue : 1.0
Date : 4 October 2006
5 Overview of existing AEROSOL retrieval algorithms
5.1 Background
We recall briefly the status of the techniques for aerosol remote sensing over land. A good starting
point is the review of King et al. 1999 from which we extract one table summarizing main classes
of algorithm (see Table 1).
Table 1: Techniques for remote sensing of global aerosol properties from space. Here τ a denotes
aerosol optical thickness, ω 0 the single scattering albedo, r e the aerosol particle effective radius,
and n c (r) the columnar aerosol size distribution.
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