SAGE II aerosol data validation based on retrieved aerosol model size distribution from SAGE II aerosol measurements
Wang, Pi‐Huan; McCormick, M. P.; McMaster, L. R.; Chu, W. P.; Swissler, T. J.; Osborn, M. T.; Russell, P. B.; Oberbeck, V. R.; Livingston, J.; Rosen, J. M.; Hofmann, D. J.; Grams, G. W.; Fuller, W. H.; Yue, G. K.
Журнал:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Дата:
1989
Аннотация:
This paper describes an investigation of the comprehensive aerosol correlative measurement experiments conducted between November 1984 and July 1986 for the satellite measurement program of the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE II). The correlative sensors involved in the experiments consist of the NASA Ames Research Center impactor/laser probe, the University of Wyoming dustsonde, and the NASA Langley Research Center airborne 14‐inch (36 cm) lidar system. The approach of the analysis is to compare the primary aerosol quantities measured by the ground‐based instruments with the calculated ones based on the aerosol size distributions retrieved from the SAGE II aerosol extinction measurements. The analysis shows that the aerosol size distributions derived from the SAGE II observations agree qualitatively with the in situ measurements made by the impactor/laser probe. The SAGE II‐derived vertical distributions of the ratio N<sub>0.15</sub>/N<sub>0.25</sub> (where N<sub>r</sub> is the cumulative aerosol concentration for particle radii greater than r, in micrometers) and the aerosol backscatter profiles at 0.532‐ and 0.6943‐μm lidar wavelengths are shown to agree with the dustsonde and the 14‐inch (36 cm) lidar observations, with the differences being within the respective uncertainties of the SAGE II and the other instruments.
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