Publications

Kahn, RA; Sayer, AM; Ahmad, Z; Franz, BA (2016). The Sensitivity of SeaWiFS Ocean Color Retrievals to Aerosol Amount and Type. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY, 33(6), 1185-1209.

Abstract
As atmospheric reflectance dominates top-of-the-atmosphere radiance over ocean, atmospheric correction is a critical component of ocean color retrievals. This paper explores the operational Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) algorithm atmospheric correction with similar to 13 000 coincident surface-based aerosol measurements. Aerosol optical depth at 440 nm (AOD(440)) is overestimated for AOD below similar to 0.1-0.15 and is increasingly underestimated at higher AOD; also, single-scattering albedo (SSA) appears overestimated when the actual value

DOI:
10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0121.1

ISSN:
0739-0572