Aerosol optical properties
Measurement Categories: Aerosols
Description: The optical properties of aerosols, including asymmetry factor, phase-function, single-scattering albedo, refractive index, and backscatter fraction.
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- Acoustical Optical Spectrometer-Photometer with Multiple Fields of View (AOS-PMFOV)
- Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT)
- Cloud Particle Imager (CPI)
- Drum Aerosol Sampler (DRUM-AEROSOL)
- EML Tower based Aerosol Measurements (AEROSOL-TOWER-EML)
- MFRSR Water-Vapor Barnard Algorithm (MFRSR-WV1BARN)
- Micropulse Lidar- Airborne (MPL-AIR)
- Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm (VISST)
- NASA-Ames Cadenza Cavity Ring-Down Instrument (CADENZA)
- University of Washington Convair 580 Aircraft (UW-CONVAIR580)
Datastreams including the measurement
- csphotalm1dubo - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Dubovik almucantar retrievals
- csphotcoarsepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, coarse mode
- csphotfinepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, fine mode
- csphottotalpfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, total mode