| タイトル | Multiwavelength Comparison of Modeled and Measured Remote Tropospheric Aerosol Backscatter Over Pacific Ocean |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19970025140 |
| 著者（英） | Spinhirne, J. D.; Clarke, A. D.; Menzies, R. T.; Cutten, D. R.; Srivastava, V.; Pueschel, R. F.; Rothermel, J. |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Ames Research Center |
| 発行日 | 1996-04-27 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | Aerosol concentrations and size distributions in the middle and upper troposphere over the remote Pacific Ocean were measured with a forward scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP) on the NASA DC-8 aircraft during NASA's Global Backscatter Experiment (GLOBE) in May-June 1990. The FSSP size channels were recalibrated based on refractive index estimates from flight-level aerosol volatility measurements with a collocated laser optical particle counter (LOPC). The recalibrated FSSP size distributions were averaged over 100-s intervals, fitted with lo-normal distributions and used to calculate aerosol backscatter coefficients at selected wavelengths. The FSSP-derived backscatter estimates were averaged over 300-s intervals to reduce large random fluctuations. The smoothed FSSP aerosol backscatter coefficients were then compared with LOPC-derived backscatter values and with backscatter measured at or near flight level from four lidar systems operating at 0.53, 1.06, 9.11, 9.25, and 10.59 micrometers. Agreement between FSSP-derived and lidar-measured backscatter was generally best at flight level in homogeneous aerosol fields and at high backscatter values. FSSP data often underestimated low backscatter values especially at the longer wavelengths due to poor counting statistics for larger particles (greater than 0.8 micrometers diameter) that usually dominate aerosol backscatter at these wavelengths. FSSP data also underestimated backscatter at shorter wavelengths when particles smaller than the FSSP lower cutoff diameter (0.35 micrometers) made significant contributions to the total backscatter. |
| NASA分類 | Oceanography |
| レポートNO | 97N24763
NAS 1.26:205108
NASA-CR-205108
Paper-95JD03423 |
| 権利 | Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright |
| URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/101079 |
