How good are the retrievals of above-cloud aerosol optical depth from satellites? A validation effort using ORACLES-1 Direct Airborne Measurements over Southeast Atlantic
Hiren T Jethva1, Omar Torres2, Changwoo Ahn3, Richard Anthony Ferrare4, Sharon P Burton4, Anthony L Cook4, David B Harper5, Chris A Hostetler4, Jens Redemann6 and Yohei Shinozuka7, (1)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Lanham, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (7)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States
