Search Results - "Vanderlei Martins, J"
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Smoke Invigoration Versus Inhibition of Clouds over the Amazon
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-08-2008)“…The effect of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is one of the most important and least understood aspects of human-induced climate change. Small changes in the…”
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Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (27-07-2008)“…The recently released Collection 5 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol products provide a consistent record of the Earth's aerosol…”
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THE PLANKTON, AEROSOL, CLOUD, OCEAN ECOSYSTEM MISSION: Status, Science, Advances
Published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (01-09-2019)“…The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission represents the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) next investment in satellite…”
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Aerosol-induced intensification of rain from the tropics to the mid-latitudes
Published in Nature geoscience (01-02-2012)“…Atmospheric aerosols affect cloud properties, and thereby the radiative balance of the planet and the water cycle. An analysis of satellite data suggests that…”
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Dominant role by vertical wind shear in regulating aerosol effects on deep convective clouds
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research. B. Solid Earth (24-11-2009)“…Aerosol‐cloud interaction is recognized as one of the key factors influencing cloud properties and precipitation regimes across local, regional, and global…”
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A Detailed Characterization of the Saharan Dust Collected During the Fennec Campaign in 2011: In Situ Ground-Based and Laboratory Measurements
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (26-01-2018)“…Millions of tons of mineral dust are lifted by the wind from arid surfaces and transported around the globe every year. The physical and chemical properties of…”
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Retrieval of aerosol properties from Airborne Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP) observations during ACEPOL 2017
Published in Atmospheric measurement techniques (05-10-2020)“…Multi-angle polarimetric (MAP) imaging of Earth scenes can be used for the retrieval of microphysical and optical parameters of aerosols and clouds. The…”
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Detecting Layer Height of Smoke Aerosols over Vegetated Land and Water Surfaces via Oxygen Absorption Bands: Hourly Results from EPIC/DSCOVR in Deep Space
Published in Atmospheric measurement techniques (20-06-2019)“…We present an algorithm for retrieving aerosol layer height (ALH) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) for smoke over vegetated land and water surfaces from…”
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SPARTAN: a global network to evaluate and enhance satellite-based estimates of ground-level particulate matter for global health applications
Published in Atmospheric measurement techniques (30-01-2015)“…Ground-based observations have insufficient spatial coverage to assess long-term human exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at the global scale…”
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Large global variations in measured airborne metal concentrations driven by anthropogenic sources
Published in Scientific reports (11-12-2020)“…Globally consistent measurements of airborne metal concentrations in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) are important for understanding potential health…”
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Spatial distribution of cloud droplet size properties from Airborne Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP) measurements
Published in Atmospheric measurement techniques (08-04-2020)“…The global variability of clouds and their interactions with aerosol and radiation make them one of our largest sources of uncertainty related to global…”
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The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest
Published in Environmental research letters (01-10-2006)“…About 40 million tons of dust are transported annually from the Sahara to the Amazon basin. Saharan dust has been proposed to be the main mineral source that…”
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Retrievals of Aerosol Optical and Microphysical Properties from Imaging Polar Nephelometer Scattering Measurements
Published in Atmospheric measurement techniques (08-03-2017)“…A method for the retrieval of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from in situ light-scattering measurements is presented and the results are compared…”
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Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry
Published in Frontiers in environmental science (23-07-2019)“…The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary…”
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Principal Component Analysis of Remote Sensing of Aerosols Over Oceans
Published in IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing (01-03-2007)“…We apply principal component analysis (PCA) to estimate how much information about atmospheric aerosols could be retrieved from solar-reflected radiances…”
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Spectral absorption properties of aerosol particles from 350–2500nm
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-07-2009)“…The aerosol spectral absorption efficiency (αa in m2/g) is measured over an extended wavelength range (350–2500 nm) using an improved calibrated and validated…”
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Critical reflectance derived from MODIS: Application for the retrieval of aerosol absorption over desert regions
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (16-02-2012)“…The determination of aerosol direct radiative forcing over desert regions requires accurate information about the aerosol single‐scattering albedo (SSA);…”
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The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) airborne field campaign
Published in Earth system science data (14-09-2020)“…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…”
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Polarized Imaging Nephelometer for in situ airborne measurements of aerosol light scattering
Published in Optics express (08-09-2014)“…Global satellite remote sensing of aerosols requires in situ measurements to enable the calibration and validation of algorithms. In order to improve our…”
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Variation in global chemical composition of PM 2.5 : emerging results from SPARTAN
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (02-08-2016)“…The Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) is a long-term project that includes characterization of chemical and physical attributes of aerosols from…”
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