Absorption of sunlight by dust as inferred from satellite and ground-based remote sensing

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作者
Kaufman, YJ [1 ]
Tanré, D
Dubovik, O
Karnieli, A
Remer, LA
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Univ Sci & Tech Lille Flandres Artois, CNRS, Opt Atmospher Lab, Villeneuve Dascq, France
[3] Sci Syst & Applicat Inc, Lanham, MD 20706 USA
[4] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, J Blaustein Inst Desert Res, IL-84990 Sede Boker, Israel
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10.1029/2000GL012647
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
摘要
Dust absorption of solar radiation is not well known due to limitations in the accuracy of in situ measurements. Here we report two new independent remote sensing techniques that provide sensitive measurements of dust absorption. One uses satellite spectral measurements, the second ground based sky measurements. Both techniques demonstrate that Saharan dust absorption of solar radiation is several times smaller than the current international standards. For example, at wavelength of 0.64 mum the dust single scattering albedo is reported here as 0.97 +/-0.02 rather than 0.87 +/-0.04 in recent review.
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