The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) airborne field campaign

In the fall of 2017, an airborne field campaign was conducted from the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, to advance the remote sensing of aerosols and clouds with multi-angle polarimeters (MAP) and lidars. The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL)...

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Published in:	Earth system science data Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 2183 - 2208
Main Authors:	Knobelspiesse, Kirk, Barbosa, Henrique M. J., Bradley, Christine, Bruegge, Carol, Cairns, Brian, Chen, Gao, Chowdhary, Jacek, Cook, Anthony, Noia, Antonio Di, Diedenhoven, Bastiaan van, Diner, David J., Ferrare, Richard, Fu, Guangliang, Gao, Meng, Garay, Michael, Hair, Johnathan, Harper, David, Harten, Gerard van, Hasekamp, Otto, Helmlinger, Mark, Hostetler, Chris, Kalashnikova, Olga, Kupchock, Andrew, Freitas, Karla Longo De, Maring, Hal, Martins, J. Vanderlei, McBride, Brent, McGill, Matthew, Norlin, Ken, Puthukkudy, Anin, Rheingans, Brian, Rietjens, Jeroen, Seidel, Felix C., Silva, Arlindo da, Smit, Martijn, Stamnes, Snorre, Tan, Qian, Val, Sebastian, Wasilewski, Andrzej, Xu, Feng, Xu, Xiaoguang, Yorks, John
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Goddard Space Flight Center Copernicus Publications 14-09-2020 Copernicus GmbH
Subjects:	Aerosols Aircraft Algorithms Archives & records Atmospheric conditions Atmospheric physics Calibration Cloud physics Clouds Data Data integration Earth Resources And Remote Sensing Ground-based observation High altitude Instrumentation And Photography Instruments Intercomparison Lidar Measurement techniques Missions Optical radar Photometers Physics Polarimeters Radiance Reflectance Remote sensing Remote sensing of aerosols Research facilities Research institutes Satellite observation Sensors Space exploration Space missions Space research Spectral resolution California United States > US Arizona Calipso Lidar Spectral-Resolution Lidar Cloud Droplet Size Multidirectional Polarization Measurements Layer Heights Aeronet Retrievals Calibration Algorithm Surface
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Summary:	In the fall of 2017, an airborne field campaign was conducted from the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, to advance the remote sensing of aerosols and clouds with multi-angle polarimeters (MAP) and lidars. The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) campaign was jointly sponsored by NASA and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON). Six instruments were deployed on the ER-2 high-altitude aircraft. Four were MAPs: the Airborne Hyper Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP), the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI), the Airborne Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (SPEX airborne), and the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP). The remainder were lidars, including the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) and the High Spectral Resolution Lidar 2 (HSRL-2). The southern California base of ACEPOL enabled observation of a wide variety of scene types, including urban, desert, forest, coastal ocean, and agricultural areas, with clear, cloudy, polluted, and pristine atmospheric conditions. Flights were performed in coordination with satellite overpasses and ground-based observations, including the Ground-based Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (GroundMSPI), sun photometers, and a surface reflectance spectrometer.
Bibliography:	GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
ISSN:	1866-3508 1866-3516 1866-3516
DOI:	10.5194/essd-12-2183-2020