Remote sensing of terrestrial tropospheric aerosols from aircraft and satellites

This review paper outlines the rationale for long-term monitoring of the global distribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds with specificity, accuracy, and coverage necessary for a reliable quantification of the direct and indirect aerosol effects on climate. We discuss the hierarchy of passive instruments suitable for aerosol remote sensing and give examples of aerosol retrievals obtained with instruments representing the low and the high end of this hierarchy.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Physics: Conference Series

• Publication date

  2005-01-01

• Fields of study

  Physics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/6/1/005
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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