Spectral absorption properties of atmospheric aerosols
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute · University of Colorado Boulder · +6 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract. We have determined the solar spectral absorption optical depth of atmospheric aerosols for specific case studies during several field programs (three cases have been reported previously; two are new results). We combined airborne measurements of the solar net radiant flux density and the aerosol optical depth with a detailed radiative transfer model for all but one of the cases. The field programs (SAFARI 2000, ACE Asia, PRIDE, TARFOX, INTEX-A) contained aerosols representing the major absorbing aerosol types: pollution, biomass burning, desert dust and mixtures. In all cases the spectral absorption optical depth decreases with wavelength and can be approximated with a power-law wavelength dependence…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 16.15
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 35
Authors
7- RWR. W. BergstromCorresponding
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
- PPPeter Pilewskie
University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- PBP. B. Russell
Ames Research Center
- JRJens Redemann
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
- TCTami C. Bond
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Topics & keywords
- Single-scattering albedo
- Aerosol
- Absorption (acoustics)
- Radiative transfer
- Angstrom exponent
- Atmospheric sciences
- Environmental science
- Wavelength