HR: 10:23h
AN: A32B-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Using the multiangle polarimetric measuring capabilities of the 2008 NASA/Glory mission to characterize non-spherical particles
AU: * Chowdhary, J
EM: jchowdhary@giss.nasa.gov
AF: Columbia University, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, United States
AU: cairns, B
EM: bcairns@giss.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New york, NY 10025, United States
AU: Mishchenko, M I
EM: mmishchenko@giss.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New york, NY 10025, United States
AU: Travis, L D
EM: ltravis@giss.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New york, NY 10025, United States
AB: The remote sensing capabilities of the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), scheduled for launch into the A-train in 2008 onboard the NASA/Glory Mission, offers an opportunity to retrieve aerosol properties such as particle refractive index, size, shape, and number density with unprecedented accuracies from space. It accomplishes this by combining the multiangle remote sensing capabilities of the MISR instrument, the multispectral remote sensing capabilities of the MODIS instrument, and the polarimetric remote sensing capabilities of the POLDER instrument. This talk provides an introduction to the objectives and measurements of the NASA/Glory mission, discusses the sensitivity of such measurements to the properties of non-spherical particles, and provides actual cases of non-spherical salt-like particle retrievals from measurements obtained during the CLAMS and MILAGRO field campaigns by an airborne prototype of the APS instrument.
UR: http://glory.giss.nasa.gov
DE: 3359 Radiative processes
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting