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Aerosol absorption over the clear-sky oceans deduced from POLDER-1 and AERONET observations

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Bellouin, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-9559, Boucher, O., Tanré, D. and Dubovik, O. (2003) Aerosol absorption over the clear-sky oceans deduced from POLDER-1 and AERONET observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (14). 1748. ISSN 0094-8276

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017121

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We estimate aerosol absorption over the clear-sky oceans using aerosol geophysical products from POLDER-1 space measurements and absorption properties from ground-based AERONET measurements. Our best estimate is 2.5 Wm-2 averaged over the 8-month lifetime of POLDER-1. Low and high absorption estimates are 2.2 and 3.1 Wm-2 based on the variability in aerosol single scattering albedo observed by AERONET. Main sources of uncertainties are the discrimation of the aerosol type from satellite measurements, and potential clear-sky bias induced by the cloud-screening procedure.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
ID Code:34584
Publisher:American Geophysical Union
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