A23L-01
NASA's New 'Deep Blue' Aerosol Products From The NPP-VIIRS Sensor

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 13:40
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Andrew M Sayer1,2, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu1, Corey Bettenhausen3, Jaehwa Lee4 and Nicholas Carletta3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
Abstract:
The Deep Blue algorithm family has been used to determine spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) from satellite measurements from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) and two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS), from 1997 onwards. However, these sensors are now either ageing or no longer functional. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the first of which was launched on the Suomi-NPP satellite in late 2011, has similar capabilities to these sensors, and so is also suitable for AOD retrieval. This presentation introduces the new NASA VIIRS ‘Deep Blue’ aerosol data set over land and ocean.

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