Titre :

The thermal infrared optical depth of mineral dust retrieved from integrated CALIOP and IIR observations

Auteur(s) :

Zheng, Jianyu [Auteur]
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology [Baltimore] [JCET]
Department of Physics [Baltimore]
Zhang, Zhibo [Auteur]
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology [Baltimore] [JCET]
Department of Physics [Baltimore]
Garnier, Anne [Auteur]
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. [Hampton] [SSAI]
NASA Langley Research Center [Hampton] [LaRC]
Yu, Hongbin [Auteur]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [GSFC]
Song, Qianqian [Auteur]
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology [Baltimore] [JCET]
Department of Physics [Baltimore]
Wang, Chenxi [Auteur]
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology [Baltimore] [JCET]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [GSFC]
Dubuisson, Philippe [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA) - UMR 8518
Di Biagio, Claudia [Auteur]
Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Faculté des sciences et technologie [UPEC FST]

Titre de la revue :

Remote Sensing of Environment

Numéro :

270

Pagination :

-

Date de publication :

2022-03-19

ISSN :

0034-4257

Mot(s)-clé(s) :

Aerosol
Dust
Thermal infrared
Radiative effect
IIR
CALIOP

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Recent studies have suggested that global climate models tend to underestimate dust particle size in particular, the very coarse mode, leading to an underestimated direct radiative effect (DRE) of dust in the longwave (LW) ...
Lire la suite >Recent studies have suggested that global climate models tend to underestimate dust particle size in particular, the very coarse mode, leading to an underestimated direct radiative effect (DRE) of dust in the longwave (LW) thermal infrared (TIR) region. However, the magnitude of LW DRE remains highly uncertain, because of limited observations of dust optical depth at the TIR (DAODTIR). This study presents a simple approach to retrieve the DAODTIR over the oceans during nighttime through synergistic use of observations from the Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), both onboard of the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission. For each cloud-free dust-laden profile identified by the IIR-CALIOP observation, a Lookup-Table (LUT) of the 10.6 μm IIR band brightness temperatures (BT) difference (dBT) under different DAODTIR with respect to their dust-free BTs is constructed based on the CALIOP retrieved dust vertical profile and a priori dust scattering properties using a fast radiative transfer model. Then the DAODTIR is retrieved by projecting the IIR-observed dBT on the LUT. Sensitivity studies show that the DAODTIR retrieval at 10.6 μm is more susceptible to the dust particle size distribution (PSD) assumption than dust refractive indices. To estimate the uncertainty caused by PSD assumption, two DAODTIR retrieval products, one based on the dust PSD from the AERONET at Cape Verde and the other on an in situ measured PSD from the recent Fennec campaign, are provided. The retrieval uncertainty is mainly contributed by the BT difference between the observation and simulation using auxiliary atmospheric data. The climatology of the retrieval from 2013 to 2019 shows reasonable spatiotemporal variations of DAODTIR with the global-averaged value of 0.008 and 0.013 based on different pre-assumed dust PSDs. Climatological results agree reasonably well with two independent DAODTIR retrieval products based on the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) over the active dust transport regions, such as North and Tropical Atlantic (r = 0.9 and r = 0.8) and Indian Ocean (r = 0.8). The seasonal and interannual variation is also well-compared (r = 0.76) with AERONET coarse-mode AOD at 97 selected sites. The synergic CALIOP observation allows the retrieved DAODTIR to directly compare with the extrapolated DAODTIR from DAOD in the visible (i.e., 532 nm), which helps evaluate the observational constraints on DAODTIR. Our study clearly reveals that the retrieved DAODTIR from IIR is much less susceptible to various uncertainties than converted results from CALIOP. It also offers a unique prospect of collocated active lidar and passive IR observations for retrieving dust DAODTIR.Lire moins >

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS

Collections :

• Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA) - UMR 8518

Date de dépôt :

2024-01-16T22:40:36Z
2024-02-09T13:27:03Z