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The Sensitivity of the Current POLDER Land Aerosol Polarized Retrieval Algorithm to Particle Size
*The author: WANG Jiacheng, E-mail:shanqiangw@fync.edu.cn
Received date: 2013-08-09
Request revised date: 2014-01-21
Online published: 2014-09-04
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One of the polarized remote sensing advantages is its insensitivity to the land surface reflection, and now it has been widely used for aerosol properties retrieval from satellite and ground-based remote sensing. As to aerosols, the polarized remote sensing is only sensitive to small particles; however, there are different understandings of the small particle size to which extend the polarized remote sensing is sensitive. For example, some studies take fine mode aerosols as small particles, but the maximum radius of fine mode aerosol varies between 0.4~1.0. What’s the upper threshold of the particle size to which the polarized remote sensing is sensitive? In order to determine the sensitivity of the polarized remote sensing to aerosol particle size, three steps are conducted as follows: firstly, the POLDER (Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances, which is equipped on Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a Lidar) and AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) data in Hefei between 2007 and 2008 are collected and processed, i.e. the AERONET data within a 1-hour range window (±30min) around the POLDER during zenith pass and the POLDER data in a 3×3 pixel box centered on the Hefei site are averaged in time and space respectively. Secondly, the aerosol optical depths in different particle size range are calculated using the refractive index and size distribution data from Hefei site according to Mie theory. Finally, the particle size to which the polarized remote sensing is sensitive is determined by finding the best fit between the POLDER aerosol optical depth and the AERONET aerosol optical depth calculated above. The results show that the polarized remote sensing is not sensitive to all the fine mode particles, but sensitive to particles with radius approximately less than 0.3μm at 865nm band. The results will not only help us to understand and utilize the aerosol products obtained from the polarized remote sensing, but also help us in polarized remote sensing application.
Key words: POLDER; AERONET; polarized remote sensing; aerosol; particle size
WANG Jiacheng . The Sensitivity of the Current POLDER Land Aerosol Polarized Retrieval Algorithm to Particle Size[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2014 , 16(5) : 790 -796 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2014.00790
Fig.1 Example of AERONET aerosol particle size distribution图1 AERONET气溶胶粒子尺度分布产品实例 |
Fig.2 Results of the calibrations图2 仪器定标结果 |
Fig.3 Example of POLDER-3 aerosol products图3 POLDER-3气溶胶产品实例 |
Fig.4 Aerosol particle size distribution data图4 气溶胶粒子尺度分布数据 |
Fig.5 Correlation between POLDER AOD and AERONER AOD图5 POLDER气溶胶光学厚度与AERONET小模式气溶胶光学厚度的相关性 |
Fig.6 Correlation between POLDER AOD and AERONER AOD with different maximum radii图6 POLDER AOD与AEROET不同上限半径粒子AOD的相关性 |
Tab.1 Fit parameters表1 拟合参数 |
0.439μm | 0.4μm | 0.37μm | 0.334μm | 0.3μm | 0.255μm | AERONET小模式 | |
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斜率 | 0.69 | 0.749 | 0.82 | 0.92 | 1.08 | 1.44 | 0.55 |
Gfrac(%) | 79 | 83 | 87 | 91 | 96 | 87 | 64 |
RMS | 0.077 | 0.064 | 0.053 | 0.043 | 0.037 | 0.049 | 0.101 |
相关系数 | 0.9 | 0.903 | 0.906 | 0.906 | 0.9 | 0.87 | 0.89 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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