• In addition, single scattering albedo and asymmetry parameter (secondary products of the method), were compared with CalNex in situ measurements. (nasa.gov)
  • These studies focus on testing a new inversion concept for simultaneously retrieving aerosol size distribution, complex refractive index, and single-scattering albedo from spectral measurements of direct and diffuse radiation. (nasa.gov)
  • The analysis shows successful retrieval of all aerosol characteristics (size distribution, complex refractive index, and single-scattering albedo), provided the inversion includes the data combination of spectral optical depth together with sky radiances in the full solar almucantar (with angular coverage of scattering angles up to 100° or more). (nasa.gov)
  • Scattering by nonspherical dust particles requires special analysis, whereby approximation of the aerosol by spheres allows us to derive single-scattering albedo by inverting spectral optical depth together with sky radiances in the full solar almucantar. (nasa.gov)
  • From June 2016 to October 2017, a 17-month in situ observation campaign on ASI found a low single-scattering albedo (SSA) as well as a high mass absorption cross-section of black carbon (MAC BC ), demonstrating the strong absorbing marine boundary layer in the south-eastern Atlantic. (copernicus.org)
  • These aerosol particles can even be tracked over clouds and areas covered by snow and ice. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology, as well as the carbon cycle, aerosols and clouds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aerosols, clouds, and phytoplankton can also affect one another. (wikipedia.org)
  • PACE will measure atmospheric particles and clouds that scatter and absorb sunlight. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aerosols affect climate indirectly by changing the micro- and macro-physical properties of clouds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aerosols also have an affect on the weather and climate by cooling or warming the earth, helping or preventing clouds from forming. (nasa.gov)
  • Satellite-derived Aerosol Index products are useful for identifying and tracking the long-range transport of volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions, smoke from wildfires or biomass burning events and dust from desert dust storms, even tracking over clouds and areas of snow and ice. (nasa.gov)
  • TEMPO measures sunlight reflected and scattered off Earth's surface, clouds, and atmosphere. (nasa.gov)
  • Those changes, the scientists say, can dramatically influence how much sunlight the particles scatter or absorb, how they interact with water, and how likely they are to form clouds-all of which are important to how they ultimately affect Earth's climate. (bnl.gov)
  • During ATom, the instruments were used to investigate how particles in the remote atmosphere influence climate by examining the origin of small particles in the remote atmosphere and their growth to sizes where they can affect clouds and the sources, characteristics, and distribution of soil dust and sea-spray particles, and 3) the importance long-range transport from human and natural sources on background aerosol properties. (nasa.gov)
  • 2013) is an airborne sun-sky spectrophotometer measuring direct solar beam transmittance (i.e., 4STAR determines direct solar beam transmission by detecting direct solar irradiance) and narrow field-of-view sky radiance to retrieve and remotely sense column-integrated and, in some cases, vertically resolved information on aerosols, clouds, and trace gases. (nasa.gov)
  • The results from these measurements are critical for quantifying: 1) the direct radiative effects of stratospheric aerosols, 2) the indirect radiative effects of tropopause region aerosols by affecting the nucleation of ice clouds, and 3) the heterogeneous halogen activation on the surface of organic-containing stratospheric aerosols. (pnnl.gov)
  • Cziczo's "magic trick," which he performed at the Dean's Breakfast on February 19, 2015, is a tabletop demonstration of an important principle that shapes the skies: Clouds require particulate aerosols-airborne dust, smoke, and other matter-to form. (mit.edu)
  • At the breakfast, Cziczo shared his research on how the size, shape, and chemical properties of airborne particles (or "aerosols") influence the formation of clouds. (mit.edu)
  • Aerosols and the clouds they form act as significant cooling forces in the global climate, but scientists can't say with confidence exactly how big that cooling effect has been-or will be in the future. (mit.edu)
  • Aerosols scatter light from the sun back into space and are responsible for the formation of clouds, which also play a major role in the absorption and reflection of heat and light. (mit.edu)
  • The resulting clouds tended to be darker and thus were more likely to absorb light. (mit.edu)
  • Surprisingly, clouds tend to be whiter now and to reflect rather than absorb light. (mit.edu)
  • The atmosphere includes air, precipitation, clouds, and atmospheric aerosols (tiny particles suspended in the air). (carleton.edu)
  • This study presents and evaluates an updated algorithm for quantification of absorbing aerosols above clouds (AACs) from passive satellite measurements. (copernicus.org)
  • The focus is biomass burning in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean during the 2016 and 2017 ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS (ORACLES) field campaign deployments. (copernicus.org)
  • Dr. Fridlind's studies of cloud microphysical properties and processes have concentrated at the intersection of detailed models and rich observational data sets, with an emphasis on aerosol-cloud interactions in ice-containing clouds that are most relevant to climate. (nasa.gov)
  • Microphysical processes in cold and warm clouds and their relationship to aerosol and dynamical environments. (nasa.gov)
  • Conduct independent and collaborative research relevant to the climate impact of clouds and aerosols, and support improvement of aerosol-cloud interactions in ModelE. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosol particles absorb and scatter incoming sunlight, which reduces visibility and increases the optical depth. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Smoke particles scatter and absorb shorter wavelengths of sunlight like blues, greens, and yellows more easily compared to the longer-wavelength oranges and reds, so we see muted red sunrises and sunsets under heavy smoke conditions," explained Stauffer. (spaceref.com)
  • Gases in the atmosphere absorb the sunlight, and the resulting spectra are then used to determine the concentrations of several gases in the air, including nitrogen dioxide. (nasa.gov)
  • This resulted in the cooling of the Earth's surface over these two years as the particles scattered and absorbed incoming sunlight. (sunygeneseoenglish.org)
  • The deepest layer (aerosol layer-1) is thick and consists of a mixture of hydrogen sulfide ice and particles from the interaction of planetary atmospheres with sunlight. (solidstatelightingdesign.com)
  • Aerosols also play a complex role in climate science by affecting cloud formation and by scattering or absorbing sunlight. (nih.gov)
  • When the sunlight is not absorbed from a thick atmosphere (Sun near the horizon), a filter must be used to view or photograph the Sun. A filter needs to block at least as well in the IR as in the visible, and to at least 2000 nm and preferable 2500 nm (most materials if blocking to 2000 nm will block to 2500 nm). (clarkvision.com)
  • Improved characterization of aerosol particles will enable quantifying their impact on marine biology and ocean chemistry, as well as Earth's energy budget and ecological forecasting. (wikipedia.org)
  • The amount of solar radiation reflected back to space or reaching the Earth's surface is primarily governed by the amount of cloud cover and, to a much lesser extent, by Rayleigh scattering, aerosols, and various absorbing gases (e.g. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosol microphysical measurements in the UT/LS are integral to understanding the chemical and radiative processes that control the Earth's climate, and PUTLS provides data for investigation of topics ranging from new particle formation to long range transport of dust and fine volcanic ash. (nasa.gov)
  • How does the presence of aerosol impact Earth's radiative transfer, with co-located high concentration of trace gas? (nasa.gov)
  • Daniel Cziczo studies the interrelationship of atmospheric aerosol particles and cloud formation and its impact on the Earth's climate system. (mit.edu)
  • Since most aerosols are concentrated near Earth's surface, the aureole at sea level appears much larger than it would high on a mountain peak. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosols are a major preoccupation for climate scientists as the particles-including dust, ash, sea salt, soot, and industrial pollutants-can scatter light and affect Earth's energy balance. (nasa.gov)
  • Oceans, which contain over 97% of Earth's water, help regulate global climate by absorbing large amounts of solar energy and circulating heat from the equator toward the poles through currents. (carleton.edu)
  • Stratospheric aerosols originate for the most part from volcanic eruptions and have a large influence on the Earth's atmosphere and climate. (iasb.be)
  • The stratospheric aerosol layer that Mt. Pinatubo created was able to block substantial amounts of solar radiation from reaching Earth's surface, resulting in a heating of the stratosphere by 3.5°C, and a cooling of the troposphere of the northern hemisphere by 0.2 to 0.7°C . These may seem like small numbers, but in the atmospheric system, small changes have big consequences. (iasb.be)
  • Meanwhile, data from NASA's ground-based Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) and Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) indicate that a significant amount of smoke is present near the surface. (spaceref.com)
  • Sensitivity studies are conducted regarding aerosol optical property retrieval from radiances measured by ground-based Sun-sky scanning radiometers of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). (nasa.gov)
  • The MRC presents overall better root mean square error over the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean compared to individual reanalyses when verified with ground-based AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) AOD measurements. (copernicus.org)
  • 1999. A multiple scattering algorithm for atmospheric correction of remotely sensed ocean colour (MERIS instrument): Principle and implementation for atmospheres carrying various aerosols including absorbing ones. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Other groups, notably Hansen et al at NASA Goddard 'improved' the 1-D RC model with additional greenhouse gases, various aerosols and a 'slab' ocean. (venturaphotonics.com)
  • The focus of the SPEXone development is to achieve a very high accuracy of DoLP measurements, which facilitates accurate characterization of aerosols in the atmosphere. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, the Terra, Aqua, and Aura satellites observe how smoke particles affect how much light the atmosphere absorbs and reflects (aerosol optical depth), while the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission collects observations of smoke height. (spaceref.com)
  • How does heating of the atmosphere by absorbing aerosol impact large scale climate and weather patterns? (nasa.gov)
  • To study how water vapor absorbs infrared radiation in the high atmosphere and influences the climate, the group needed a site well above sea level. (nasa.gov)
  • The "hydrological cycle" of the planet is being completely disrupted by the geoengineering aerosol saturation of the atmosphere. (wakeup-world.com)
  • The emergence of aerosol reanalyses, including the Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) aerosol optical depth (AOD) reanalysis, NASA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2), and ECMWF Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reanalysis (CAMSRA), enables an investigation of the relationship between African dust and TC activity over the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean in a consistent temporal and spatial manner for 2003-2018. (copernicus.org)
  • The relationship was stronger for top of the atmosphere reflectance data (R2=0.76) than for data that had been atmospherically corrected with MODIS-derived aerosol optical depth values and the 6S atmospheric correction model (R2=0.53). (slideserve.com)
  • For these days, MODIS data were downloaded and processed (top-of-atmosphere reflectance, aerosol optical thickness (AOT), geolocation, cloud mask, and sun/sensor geometry). (slideserve.com)
  • At higher altitudes, the atmosphere tends to be less absorbing, and danger increases, even when the Sun is near the horizon. (clarkvision.com)
  • We evaluate the sensitivity of the size calibrations of two commercially available, high-resolution optical particle sizers to changes in aerosol composition and complex refractive index (RI). (nasa.gov)
  • The aerosol particles are assumed in the retrieval to be polydispersed homogeneous spheres with the same complex refractive index. (nasa.gov)
  • The team's model consists of three layers of aerosols at different heights [5]. (gemini.edu)
  • This diagram shows three layers of aerosols in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, as designed by a team of scientists led by Patrick Irwin. (solidstatelightingdesign.com)
  • The team's model consists of three layers of aerosols at different altitudes. (solidstatelightingdesign.com)
  • SPEXone will enable measurements of optical and micro-physical properties of aerosols with unprecedented detail and accuracy. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study presents the aerosol radiative forcing derived from airborne measurements of shortwave spectral irradiance during the 2010 Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex). (nasa.gov)
  • The major limitations relate to the characterization of low optical depth situations for all aerosol types, where high relative errors may occur in the direct radiation measurements of aerosol optical depth. (nasa.gov)
  • The algorithm retrieves the above-cloud aerosol optical depth (AOD) and underlying liquid cloud optical depth and is applied to measurements from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) from 1997 to 2017. (copernicus.org)
  • However, a time series of instantaneous LUE, computed as Gross Ecosystem Photosynthesis (GEP) / Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (APAR) derived from tower measurements for the same period, showed that LUE was very dynamic and responded to changes in environmental variables. (slideserve.com)
  • 1999, and cited in more than 100 publication) and greatly expanding aerosol observations from the ground-based AERONET network of sun-sky photometers (Holben et al. (nasa.gov)
  • The PUTLS comprises three individual instruments for the measurement of aerosol number size distribution in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: a Nucleation Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer (NMASS), an Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS), and a Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS). (nasa.gov)
  • According to the NASA Earth Observatory, the Pinatubo eruption erupted with such force that its plume of ash and sulfur dioxide penetrated into the stratosphere. (sunygeneseoenglish.org)
  • The eruption released about 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, forming a layer of aerosol particles that were spread across the globe over the next two years due to strong stratospheric winds. (sunygeneseoenglish.org)
  • Aerosols in the stratosphere and upper troposphere modify radiative forcing by scattering and absorbing solar radiation, as well as serving as ice nuclei to alter cloud formation process. (pnnl.gov)
  • While stratospheric aerosols have long been assumed to consist primarily of sulfuric acid/water solution droplets, sometimes with nitrate, observations and recent modeling studies show that organic components constitute a large part of stratospheric aerosols, especially in the lower stratosphere. (pnnl.gov)
  • Recent Australian and Canadian wildfire events also injected a large number of organic aerosols to the middle stratosphere. (pnnl.gov)
  • The chemical composition of the organic matter and the morphology of mixed organic/inorganic aerosols in the stratosphere and upper troposphere may play an important role in aerosol-light interaction, ice nucleation, as well as heterogeneous chemistry. (pnnl.gov)
  • Here, we propose to investigate the chemical composition, morphology, and ice nucleation propensity of aerosol particles collected in the stratosphere and upper troposphere using the NASA WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft. (pnnl.gov)
  • In fact, volcanic eruptions, because of their violent power, are a very effective way of providing the necessary ingredients for the formation of aerosols in the stratosphere, a very stable and difficult layer to penetrate. (iasb.be)
  • A team from NASA Langley Research Center needed a high and dry place to run their Far Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) instrument last summer and fall. (nasa.gov)
  • Photo courtesy of Rich Cageao, NASA Langley Research Center. (nasa.gov)
  • The massive elephant in the room has been, and still is, "stratospheric aerosol geoengineering" (SAG) also known as "solar radiation management" (SRM). (wakeup-world.com)
  • What Is Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering and Why Is It So Dangerous? (wakeup-world.com)
  • Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is a primary term for the ongoing global climate modification programs being conducted by major powers around the world. (wakeup-world.com)
  • The Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) Satellite Mission is a NASA mission to measure Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) over a five-year period. (nasa.gov)
  • Their main quarry was black carbon, or soot, the primary light-absorbing substance emitted by fires and the dominant particulate climate-warming agent. (bnl.gov)
  • Aerosols are small solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that affect climate directly through interaction with solar radiation. (wikipedia.org)
  • NASA continually monitors solar radiation and its effect on the planet. (nasa.gov)
  • The Absorbing Aerosol Index is useful for identifying and tracking the long-range transport of volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions, smoke from wildfires or biomass burning events, and dust from desert dust storms. (scitechdaily.com)
  • How much light is absorbed by aerosol emitted through biomass burning? (nasa.gov)
  • The effects of these errors on the characterization of three typical and optically distinct aerosols with bimodal size distributions (weakly absorbing water-soluble aerosol, absorbing biomass-burning aerosol, and desert dust) are considered. (nasa.gov)
  • BTW, aerindex is a very ancient attempt at flagging absorbing aerosol in the data (the aerosol models, even today, are non- or weakly absorbing). (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosol inorganic salt species are chosen to cover the real refractive index range of 1.32 to 1.78, while chosen light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols include fullerene soot, nigrosine dye, humic acid, and fulvic acid standards. (nasa.gov)
  • In this study, it is used to put the aerosol radiative effects of an air mass in the Los Angeles basin in context with case studies from three field missions that targeted other regions and aerosol types, including a case study from the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS). (nasa.gov)
  • BB aerosols are transported westward over the south-eastern Atlantic with the mid-tropospheric winds, resulting in significant radiative effects. (copernicus.org)
  • 2 Aerosols: Tiny Particles, Big Impact [website]. (nih.gov)
  • The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP provided a visible image while the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Nadir-Mapper (NM) instrument aboard the Suomi-NPP satellite provided absorbing aerosol index values. (scitechdaily.com)
  • What is the impact of air quality from long-range transport of both aerosol particulates and column NO2 and Ozone, and their evolution? (nasa.gov)
  • Stratospheric aerosols also affect ozone chemistry by modulating the heterogenous reaction rates of halogen species on the particle surface. (pnnl.gov)
  • Even the air-now with its faint taste of smog-would have contained a different cocktail of ozone, aerosols, and other chemicals than that which we currently breathe. (yalescientific.org)
  • Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets. (gemini.edu)
  • This paper presents two algorithms used to derive Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from a synergy of satellite and ground-based observations, as well as aerosol transport model output. (mdpi.com)
  • New observations and related modelling studies of the aerosol-cloud-climate. (copernicus.org)
  • This conclusion comes from a model [3] that an international team led by Patrick Irwin, Professor of Planetary Physics at Oxford University, developed to describe aerosol layers in the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus [4]. (gemini.edu)
  • Aerosol particles also affect weather and climate by cooling or warming the earth as well as enhancing or preventing cloud formation. (scitechdaily.com)
  • By sampling soot-based aerosol particles at increasing distances from wildfires, scientists found significant changes as particles age. (bnl.gov)
  • To gather the new data on how soot particles evolve, the scientists installed sensitive instruments designed to analyze aerosol particles on airplanes operated by the DOE and NASA. (bnl.gov)
  • However, large undersizing deviations are observed for the lowrefractive-index fluoride salts and the strongly absorbing nigrosine dye and fullerene soot particles. (nasa.gov)
  • 4STAR is used to quantify the attenuated solar light (from 350 to 1650 nm) and retrieve properties of various atmospheric constituents: spectral Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from ultraviolet to the shortwave infrared (e.g. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using GOES 16 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). (spaceref.com)
  • Greenbelt, MD:NASA Earth Observatory, EOS Project Science Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (updated 2 Nov 2010). (nih.gov)
  • NASA uses satellites and other resources to track aerosol particles made of desert dust, smoke, and volcanic ash. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The OMPS index indicates the presence of light-absorbing aerosol particles (ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing particles in the air) such as desert dust. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Colin Seftor, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., created imagery from the Suomi NPP OMPS absorbing aerosol index and visible imagery from the VIIRS instrument He said that on June 23 and 24 the dust plume had moved completely over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, up through the Gulf of Mexico and into southern Texas. (scitechdaily.com)
  • At that point, the situation becomes more complicated because the absorbing aerosol index signal seen further north into Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc., is probably a mix of dust and smoke from the numerous fires burning in the southwest U.S. You can also see that the dust traveled over Central America and out into the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (scitechdaily.com)
  • On June 25, an animation that combined OMPS aerosol index and VIIRS visible imagery from NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite was created at NASA Goddard showing the movement of the Saharan dust cloud from June 15 to 25, 2020. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Aerosol particles are produced from many events including human activities such as pollution from factories and natural processes such as smoke from fires, dust from dust storms, sea salt from breaking waves, and volcanic ash from volcanoes. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This "true-color" composite image of the Saharan Dust plume was captured by the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on June 24, 2020. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Sources of aerosols include pollution from factories, smoke from fires, dust from dust storms, sea salts, and volcanic ash and smog. (nasa.gov)
  • Therefore we also examined how inversions with such an assumption bias the retrievals in the case of nonspherical dust aerosols and in the case of externally or internally mixed spherical particles with different refractive indices. (nasa.gov)
  • Airborne particles can impact climate directly by absorbing or scattering solar and terrestrial radiation and indirectly by acting as the seeds on which cloud droplets and ice crystals form. (mit.edu)
  • Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) recently ran a series of photos that illustrates nicely the impact that small airborne particles called aerosols can have on light. (nasa.gov)
  • 2010. New aerosol models for the retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and normalized water-leaving radiances from the SeaWiFS and MODIS sensors over coastal regions and open oceans. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The surface properties are estimated during days with a low AOD (less than 0.1 at 500 nm) based on the radiance measured by the SEVIRI detector and aerosol optical properties modeled with the aerosol transport model or measured by the MODIS sensor. (mdpi.com)
  • Hi, I was wondering if there was a mechanism for SeaDAS to output the aerosol model it determines for a given atmospheric correction procedure (i.e. for aer_opt=-2,-3,-9). (nasa.gov)
  • Based on the three individual reanalyses, we have created an aerosol multi-reanalysis consensus (MRC). (copernicus.org)
  • This June 24, 2020 image is from the Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index. (scitechdaily.com)
  • On 4 February 2020, NASA announced the selection of SpaceX to launch PACE on a Falcon 9, at a total cost to NASA of US$80.4 million, including the launch service and other mission-related costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • A further process always results from absorption, that is, the irreversible conversion of the absorbed radiation into some other form of energy within and according to the nature of the absorbing medium. (nasa.gov)
  • The absorbing medium itself may emit radiation, but only after an energy conversion has occurred. (nasa.gov)
  • Sizing response of the Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS) and. (nasa.gov)
  • The Droplet Measurement Technologies Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS) and the TSI, Inc. Laser Aerosol Spectrometer (LAS) are two commonly used instruments for measuring the portion of the aerosol size distribution with diameters larger than nominally 60-90 nm. (nasa.gov)
  • While the optical block geometry and flow system are similar for each instrument, a significant difference between the two models is the laser wavelength (1054 nm for the UHSAS and 633 nm for the LAS) and intensity (about 100 times higher for the UHSAS), which may affect the way each instrument sizes non-spherical or absorbing aerosols. (nasa.gov)
  • Here, we challenge the UHSAS and LAS with laboratory-generated, mobility-size-classified aerosols of known chemical composition to quantify changes in the optical size response relative to that of ammonium sulfate (RI of 1.52 + 0i at 532 nm) and NIST-traceable polystyrene latex spheres (PSLs with RI of 1.59 + 0i at 589 nm). (nasa.gov)
  • Relative forcing efficiency, the radiative forcing normalized by aerosol optical thickness and incident irradiance, is a means of comparing the aerosol radiative forcing for different conditions. (nasa.gov)
  • The CalNex relative forcing efficiency spectra agreed with earlier studies that found this parameter to be constrained at each wavelength within 20% per unit of aerosol optical thickness at 500 nm regardless of aerosol type and experiment, except for highly absorbing aerosols sampled near Mexico City. (nasa.gov)
  • Images from Japan's Himawari satellite network, used by the Philippine weather bureau for monitoring, show levels of what's known as aerosol optical depth that corresponds with lower PM2.5 concentrations. (mongabay.com)
  • Accuracy assessments of aerosol optical properties retrieved from Aerosol. (nasa.gov)
  • Here we investigate the monthly variations of critical optical properties of BB aerosols, i.e. (copernicus.org)
  • as the BC background concentration is considered to be 0) is well correlated with SSA and MAC BC , providing a simple way to estimate the aerosol optical characteristics in the south-eastern Atlantic. (copernicus.org)
  • This image is a composite of the OMPS aerosol index and the VIIRS visible image both from NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on June 24. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The AMP package provides particle size distributions with up to one-second time resolution for dry aerosol particles between 0.003 and 1.5 µm in diameter. (nasa.gov)
  • Both instruments illuminate particles with a laser and relate the single-particle light scattering intensity and count rate measured over a wide range of angles to the size-dependent particle concentration. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosols" is simply a term for a microscopic particle that is suspended in the air. (wakeup-world.com)
  • Cziczo earned a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992, and afterwards spent two years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory performing spacecraft navigation. (mit.edu)
  • Cziczo started his career, not as a climate scientist, but as an aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), working on the orbital mechanics of the Galileo probe. (mit.edu)
  • The instrument, third in a series of long-term solar-monitoring tools built for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will continue to extend the database first created by ACRIM I, which was launched in 1980 on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) spacecraft. (nasa.gov)
  • The first pollution maps released by NASA from the mission show concentrations of nitrogen dioxide gas from pollution around cities and major transportation arteries of North America. (nasa.gov)
  • This understanding of this oxidation sequence is going to get us a long way toward understanding the aerosol [pollution] in those regions. (nih.gov)
  • NASA LANCE near real-time data can be used for identifying, tracking, and monitoring fires. (nasa.gov)
  • The key layer that affects the colors is the middle layer, which is a layer of haze particles (referred to in the paper as the Aerosol-2 layer) that is thicker on Uranus than on Neptune. (gemini.edu)
  • Also, the results of tests indicate that a decrease of angular coverage of scattering (scattering angles of 75° or less) in the sky radiance results in the loss of practical information about refractive index. (nasa.gov)
  • formulation of science objectives and sensor requirements for an advanced ocean biology satellite mission began in the year 2000 with a NASA agency-wide carbon cycle initiative that included ocean, terrestrial, and atmospheric disciplines. (wikipedia.org)