Title
A world-wide comparison of aerosol data
Author
van Eijk, A.M.J.
Piazzola, J.
Van Zuijlen, S.
Cohen, L.
Moerman, M.
Missamou, T.
Tedeschi, G.
Stein, K.
Contributor
Gonglewski, J.D. (editor)
Stein, K.U. (editor)
Publication year
2016
Abstract
A comparison of aerosol data acquired at five different sites around the globe is presented. All data has been acquired with the same instrumentation and representative size distributions for marine air masses at 10 m/s wind speed have been selected for comparison. Differences in the concentrations of larger and smaller aerosols at the various sites are explained in terms of fetch, trade winds, shielding, pollution, seawater temperature and phytoplankton bloom. The differences in size distribution induce significant differences in the extinction coefficients from the VIS to the LWIR at the various sites. Consequently, the transmission over a specific range also varies significantly. This suggests that a detailed analysis of the conditions at each site is necessary in order to understand the exact aerosol behavior and to correctly predict electro-optical propagation effects due to aerosols. © 2016 SPIE. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Subject
Observation, Weapon & Protection Systems
ED - Electronic Defence
TS - Technical Sciences
Marine aerosols
Adaptive optics
Adaptive systems
Light propagation
Measurements
Size distribution
Transmissions
Wind
Extinction coefficients
Fetch
Marine aerosols
Marine air
Phytoplankton bloom
Seawater temperature
Source functions
Trade winds
Aerosols
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240843
TNO identifier
745581
Publisher
SPIE
ISBN
9781510604087
ISSN
0277-786X
Source
Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XIX. 28 September 2016 through 29 September 2016, 10002
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Article number
1000202
Document type
conference paper