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On the Use of CALIPSO Land Surface Returns to Retrieve Aerosol and Cloud Optical Depths

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The quantification of aerosol and cloud radiative properties, optical depth (OD), and phase function is of high importance to quantify the human impact on climate. Several approaches now exist based on both active (lidar) and passive (spectroradiometers) sensors. However, passive space observations over land are hindered by the important contribution of the surface to the total reflectance. Retrievals of OD from backscatter lidars do not face this issue but are usually based on the use of an a priori value of the so-called lidar ratio, which may lead to a significant uncertainty. The objective of this paper is to analyze a possible path for the space borne backscatter lidar onboard the Cloud Aerosol Lidar Pathfinder Observations satellite to overcome those issues. We will discuss the space-borne retrievals of ODs based on the land surface returns, either in combination with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or as a stand-alone lidar method. Analyses will be presented for a few cases on different surface types. The different error sources are discussed and further solutions to reduce them are explored. We show that the surface types have different polarization and multispectral properties, which can open new research areas based on space lidars. Using such an approach, we show that a retrieval technique based on the use of lidar land surface returns can be used to directly retrieve OD of aerosols and semitransparent cloud.
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insu-01852539 , version 1 (01-08-2018)

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D. Josset, Jacques Pelon, N. Pascal, Y. Hu, W. Hou. On the Use of CALIPSO Land Surface Returns to Retrieve Aerosol and Cloud Optical Depths. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, 56 (6), pp.3256 - 3264. ⟨10.1109/TGRS.2018.2796850⟩. ⟨insu-01852539⟩
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