The Dynamics of Fine Mode Aerosol Optical Properties in South Korea from AERONET and Aircraft Observations with a Focus on Cases with Large Cloud Fraction and/or Fog During KORUS-AQ

Thomas F Eck1, Brent Holben2, Jhoon Kim3, Myungje Choi4, David Matthew Giles5, Joel Schafer6, Alexander Smirnov5, Ilya Slutsker7, Aliaksandr Siniuk5, Mikhail G Sorokin2, Jason Kraft8, Andreas Joel Beyersdorf9, Bruce E Anderson10, Kenneth Lee Thornhill II11 and James H Crawford10, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Yonsei University, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (4)Yonsei Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Fibertek Inc., Herndon, VA, United States, (9)Battlefield, MO, United States, (10)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (11)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States