Jaehwa Lee 1,2, N. Christina Hsu1, Corey Bettenhausen1,3, Andrew M. Sayer1,4, Colin J. Seftor1,3, Myeong-Jae Jeong5, Si-Chee Tsay1, Ellsworth J. Welton1, Sheng-Hsiang Wang6, Wei-Nai Chen7

  • 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  • 2 Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • 3 Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA
  • 4 Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
  • 5 Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Gangwon, Korea
  • 6 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li 32001, Taiwan
  • 7 Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Received: August 17, 2015
Revised: December 21, 2015
Accepted: January 6, 2016
Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2015.08.0506  

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Lee, J., Hsu, N.C., Bettenhausen, C., Sayer, A.M., Seftor, C.J., Jeong, M.J., Tsay, S.C., Welton, E.J., Wang, S.H. and Chen, W.N. (2016). Evaluating the Height of Biomass Burning Smoke Aerosols Retrieved from Synergistic Use of Multiple Satellite Sensors over Southeast Asia. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 16: 2831-2842. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2015.08.0506


HIGHLIGHTS

  • Satellite retrievals of aerosol SSA and height are performed over Southeast Asia.
  • Retrieval results are compared to data from spaceborne and ground-based instruments. 
  • Satellite-retrieved SSA and height show promising performance.

 

ABSTRACT


This study evaluates the height of biomass burning smoke aerosols retrieved from a combined use of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) observations. The retrieved heights are compared against spaceborne and ground-based lidar measurements during the peak biomass burning season (March and April) over Southeast Asia from 2013 to 2015. Based on the comparison against CALIOP, a quality assurance (QA) procedure is developed. It is found that 74% (81–84%) of the retrieved heights fall within 1 km of CALIOP observations for unfiltered (QA-filtered) data, with root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 1.1 km (0.8–1.0 km). Eliminating the requirement for CALIOP observations from the retrieval process significantly increases the temporal coverage with only a slight decrease in the retrieval accuracy; for best QA data, 64% of data fall within 1 km of CALIOP observations with RMSE of 1.1 km. When compared with Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) measurements deployed at Doi Ang Khang, Thailand, the retrieved heights show RMSE of 1.7 km (1.1 km) for unfiltered (QA-filtered) data for the complete algorithm, and 0.9 km (0.8 km) for the simplified algorithm.


Keywords: Aerosol height; Satellite; Biomass burning; Southeast Asia; 7-SEAS


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