Asymmetry factors: hemispheric backscattering to total scattering ratios and backscatter fractions retrieved from multiwavelength scattering coefficients

Helena Gonzalez Jorge; Fernando Rosa; John Ogren

doi:10.1117/12.413850

31 January 2001 Asymmetry factors: hemispheric backscattering to total scattering ratios and backscatter fractions retrieved from multiwavelength scattering coefficients

Helena Gonzalez Jorge, Fernando Rosa, John Ogren

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Proceedings Volume 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413850
Event: Europto Remote Sensing, 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

The asymmetry factor, the hemispheric backscattering to total scattering ratio and the backscatter fraction are key parameters for the climate model calculations. The inversion method of King et al. has been modified to retrieve these key parameters from scattering coefficients at four wavelengths. The inversion of multi wavelength aerosol optical properties is an alternative way to obtain the asymmetry factor, the hemispheric backscattering to total scattering ratio and the backscatter fraction, using the retrieved size distributions as an intermediate step.

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Helena Gonzalez Jorge, Fernando Rosa, and John Ogren "Asymmetry factors: hemispheric backscattering to total scattering ratios and backscatter fractions retrieved from multiwavelength scattering coefficients", Proc. SPIE 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V, (31 January 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413850

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