Aircraft Measurements on Vertical Changes in Aerosol Parameters—Remote Sensing with Detection of Upwelling Radiance from an Atmosphere-Ocean Surface System

Abstract

Aerosol parameters (size distribution, refractive index, and vertical concentration) were estimated from upwelling radiance measurements (over Ise Bay, Nagoya Japan on December 5, 1986) from an airborne platform. The modified adding method and multi-dimension regression method used for data reduction are useful techniques for remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols. The parameters estimated showed good agreement with typical urban atmospheric aerosols: a size distribution of 3.7×10⁵×r^-5.1 (particles/μm/m³) and a refractive index of 1.42+0.0069i.