Aerosol optical properties from sky radiometer measurement on board R/V Shirase during the JARE Japan Antarctica cruises
Abstract
Sky radiometer measurement on board the Antarctic R/V Shirase has been continued for investigating the aerosol optical properties over the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Ocean during the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) Japan Antarctica annual cruises since 2000. The Prede POM-01 Mark II sky-radiometer is designed for shipboard measurements and was put on the upper deck of R/V Shirase for full-automatic operations being controlled by a PC placed in a laboratory room during cruises. In this paper, a brief summary of results from the 2000 - 2005 cruises is shown and discussed on optical properties such as the aerosol optical thickness, single scattering albedo, complex refractive index, etc. to be compared with those which have been simultaneously obtained from in-situ measurements with an optical particle counter, an integrating nephelometer and a PSAP for marine boundary layer aerosols, especially in the Asian tropical ocean area.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006AGUFM.A53C0203S
- Keywords:
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- 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345;
- 4801;
- 4906);
- 0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering;
- 0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry;
- 3360 Remote sensing;
- 4801 Aerosols (0305;
- 4906)