Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27..955g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 7, p. 955-956
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution-Urban And Regional
Scientific paper
Data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) on board the European ERS-2 satellite have been used to derive the spatial distribution of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) over Europe for August 1997. The AOD was retrieved in cloud-free areas using the dual view algorithm. The results agree with co-located ground based sun-photometer data within 0.1. The AOD from ATSR-2 with a resolution of 1×1km2 were averaged on a grid of 0.1°×0.1°, to produce daily maps of the spatial aerosol distribution over Europe. A composite map of AOD over Europe was constructed by averaging all daily maps for August 1997. This composite map shows large spatial AOD gradients with variations of a factor of 3 over a few hundreds of kilometers. The AOD at 0.555 μm for relatively clean areas is around 0.1 while in strong industrialized areas the AOD can be 0.5 or higher.
de Leeuw Gerrit
Gonzalez Robles C.
Veefkind Pepijn J.
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