Title
Influence of aerosols on atmospheric transmission at the Baltic Sea: Comparison of experimental results with model simulations using MODTRAN
Author
Vogelbacher, S.
Sprung, D.
van Eijk, A.M.J.
Stein, K.
Contributor
Gonglewski, J.D. (editor)
Stein, K.U. (editor)
Publication year
2015
Abstract
A recent field trial in the Northern German littoral area of the Baltic Sea yielded a dataset of visibility, meteorological parameters, aerosol size distributions, as well as transmission over a horizontal path of 1344 m. The experimental results are compared to simulations using the MODTRAN (moderate resolution atmospheric transmission) model, that was run with the rural and Navy Aerosol Model, (NAM) in various configurations. Best results were obtained when MODTRAN was tuned with the measured visibility values. When NAM was used without visibility tuning, MODTRAN tended to overestimate the transmission in low-visibility conditions, which was attributed to the presence of a non-maritime aerosol fraction. © 2015 SPIE.
Subject
2015 Observation, Weapon & Protection Systems
ED - Electronic Defence
TS - Technical Sciences
Defence, Safety and Security
Aerosol distribution
Horizontal propagation
Modtran
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197090
TNO identifier
534547
Publisher
SPIE
ISBN
9781628418514
ISSN
0277-786X
Source
Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XVIII, 22 September 2015, 9641
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Article number
964106
Document type
conference paper