Characterization of Dust Aerosols and Atmospheric Parameters from Space-borne and Surface-based Remote Sensing: Application of Community Radiative Transfer Algorithms to Navy Electro-Optical Models

Abstract

The long-term goals of this project are: To provide an aid for tactical decisions through a user-friendly web-based interface. Specifically, the tool will provide an assessment of the visibility conditions as seen by different types of detectors in a given region of the world. This is a tactical aid where speed of computation is emphasized over precision in the computation. To investigate quantitatively the radiative forcing and climatic effects of aerosols by analyzing and modeling data obtained from various ONR/NASA field campaigns. To construct and utilize computationally efficient radiation post-processors for running on US Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) to estimate aerosol radiative flux (e.g., Fu and Liou 1993) perturbations and general visibility conditions from visible to thermal IR wavelengths.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA628826

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey S. Reid
  • Q. J. Ji
  • Santiago Gasso
  • Si-chee Tsay

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Communities
  • Computations
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Mail
  • Ground Based
  • North America
  • Observation
  • Optical Properties
  • Radiation
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Simulations
  • Space Flight
  • Target Acquisition
  • United States

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space