Spaceborne Remote Sensing of Aerosol Type: Global Distribution, Model Evaluation and Translation into Chemical Speciation

Meloe S Kacenelenbogen1, Qian Tan2, Matthew S Johnson3, Sharon P Burton4, Jens Redemann5, Otto P. P Hasekamp6, Kyle William Dawson7, Johnathan W Hair8, Richard Anthony Ferrare4, Carolyn F Butler4, Brent Holben9, Andreas Joel Beyersdorf10, Luke D Ziemba4, Karl D Froyd11, Jack E Dibb12, Taylor Shingler8, Armin Sorooshian13, Jose L Jimenez14, Pedro Campuzano-Jost15, Daniel J. Jacob16, Patrick S Kim17, Katherine Travis4 and Carlo Lacagnina18, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (6)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, Netherlands, (7)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, United States, (11)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Ocean, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (13)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (14)University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (16)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (17)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (18)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands