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Jun Wang1, Sundar A Christopher1, Xiong Liu2, Jeffrey S. Reid3, Elizabeth A. Reid3, Hal Maring4
1Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama-Huntsville 3Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
2Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 4Division of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Miami, FL.
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resolutions.
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With the change of the solar zenith angle, the
GOES satellite provides observations over a Will consideration of non-spherical effects improve the satellite La Paguera Roosevelt Road
wide range of scattering angles in a short time retrievals, if all the required data to characterize aerosol optical
period – an opportunity to explore the non- 5
properties are given in the same temporal-spatial domain? -90 -80 -70 -60 -50 -40 -30
sphericity effect on dust retrievals. Latitude
Non-Spherical retrieval errors Mixture retrieval errors
Further efforts are needed to combine the use of multi-angle, multi-channel, and polarization
Measured dust size distribution (from 3 10-1 data sets to retrieve the morphologies of particles and to apply them in satellite retrievals.
Relative Probability