Measurements of desert dust optical characteristics at Porte au Sahara during SAMUM

W. Von Hoyningen-Huene; T. Dinter; A. A. Kokhanovsky; J. P. Burrows; M. Wendisch; E. Bierwirth; D. Müller; M. Diouri

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00405.x

Measurements of desert dust optical characteristics at Porte au Sahara during SAMUM

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 61 (2009): Issue 1

By: W. Von Hoyningen-Huene, T. Dinter, A. A. Kokhanovsky, J. P. Burrows, M. Wendisch, E. Bierwirth, D. Müller and M. Diouri

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|Jan 2009

Abstract

Main optical characteristics of desert dust, such as phase function and single scattering albedo, have been derived from combinations of sun-/sky-radiometer and satellite measurements during the SAMUM experiment (10 May–10 June 2006) at the site Porte au Sahara (30.237◦N, 5.607◦W) in South Morocco. Scattering phase functions have been retrieved using combined data of spectral aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and spectral sky brightness in the almucantar, considering non-spherical light scattering. Intercomparisons of modelled top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance with satellite observations of the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) and Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography () instrument have been used for the estimation of spectral single scattering albedo. For the radiative transfer calculations scattering phase functions and AOT from ground-based observations have been used. The spectral single scattering albedo ranges from 0.93 in the blue to 0.98 at 753 nm.

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