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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 3163-3173Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2513015
Keywords
Aerosols above clouds; algorithm; NASA A-Train; Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI)
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- NASA's CALIPSO program
- NASA's Radiation Sciences program
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Geostationary satellite data from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) in conjunction with A-Train data are used to develop an algorithm for detecting biomass-burning smoke aerosols above closed-cell stratocumulus (Sc) clouds. The detection relies on spectral signatures, textural characteristics, and time-dependent spectral variation of SEVIRI data. A-Train data including the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) are used as reference data for the SEVIRI algorithm development. The 15-min repeat cycle of SEVIRI provides the capability for identifying smoke above closed-cell Sc with an OMI aerosol index value exceeding 0.5 and a cloud optical thickness greater than 6 at 0.81 mu m. The user accuracy of this algorithm is similar to 49% when using only spectral signature and textural tests. When incorporating the temporal consistency tests into the algorithm, the user accuracy increases to similar to 65%. The producer accuracy is over similar to 77%, implying that the SEVIRI algorithm generally identifies smoke above clouds when CALIOP also identifies the same feature at the collocated pixel. However, CALIOP has the tendency to underestimate the presence of thin smoke aerosols above liquid clouds during daytime. This algorithm can be used to detect and study the daytime variation of smoke above liquid clouds.
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