Are the effective polarization measurements in the study of Earth's atmosphere aerosol?
| 1Morozhenko, OV, 1Vidmachenko, AP, Nevodovskiy, PV, 1Kostogryz, NM 1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Kinemat. fiz. nebesnyh tel (Online) 2014, 30(1):17-32 |
| Start Page: Dynamics and Physics of Solar System Bodies |
| Language: Russian |
Abstract: It is shown that satellite polarization observations of the Earth at wavelengths more than 300 nm are not effective to determine physical characteristics of aerosol due to the impossibility to properly separate the atmosphere and surface contributions. This is caused by the optical heterogeneity of the surface, changing the aerosol nature over the relief details and difficulties in the prediction of temporal changes of the optical properties of the «atmosphere + surface» system. Observations at wavelengths less than 300 nm are more favourable because the ozone layer absorbs very strongly and makes nearly invisible not only the surface, but also tropospheric layers which are most strongly affected to the horizontal inhomogeneity of optical properties and their temporal variations. Therefore, scanning along individual latitude belts will provide quasi-homogeneous phase dependences of the second Stokes parameter Q(α)(U(α)=0) which are suitable for the assessment of the physical characteristics of the stratospheric aerosol and revealing their changes in the horizontal plane and in time. |
| Keywords: aerosol, Earth, observation |
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