https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817602019
Aerosol optical properties retrieved from the future space lidar mission ADM-aeolus
CNRM UMR 3589, Meteo FRance and CNRS, France
Published online: 13 April 2018
The ADM-Aeolus mission, to be launched by end of 2017, will enable the retrieval of aerosol optical properties (extinction and backscatter coefficients essentially) for different atmospheric conditions. A newly developed feature finder (FF) algorithm enabling the detection of aerosol and cloud targets in the atmospheric scene has been implemented. Retrievals of aerosol properties at a better horizontal resolution based on the feature finder groups have shown an improvement mainly on the backscatter coefficient compared to the common 90 km product.
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