POSTER Session 3

MARITIME AEROSOL NETWORK AS A COMPONENT OF AERONET – A VALIDATION TOOL FOR PACE

Maritime Aerosol Network (MAN) as a component of AERONET collects aerosol optical depth data over World Ocean from ships of opportunity. Establishment of Maritime Aerosol Network allowed to improve our knowledge of aerosol optical properties and fill existing data gaps in various oceanic areas. MAN deploys a hand-held sunphotometer (Microtops II). MAN is affiliated with the AERONET calibration and data processing standards and procedures. Data collection over World Oceans, spanning now for over 18 years put together a public web-based archive which currently consists of over 700 cruises and more than 10000 measurement days. The major advantage of our activity is the fact that hand-held sunphotometer calibration and processing are tied to the AERONET standard. The ship-borne aerosol optical depth data offer an excellent opportunity for comparison with global aerosol transport models and satellite retrievals and provide useful information on aerosol distribution over the oceans. Data archives can help understanding discrepancies between measurements and/or simulations for various areas of the World Ocean. The program exemplifies mutually beneficial international, multi-agency effort in atmospheric aerosol optical studies.

Alexander Smirnov, Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, [email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8208-1304

Pawan Gupta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, [email protected]

Elena Lind, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, [email protected]

Brent Holben, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, [email protected]

Philippe Goloub, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, France, [email protected]

Stefan Kinne, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany, [email protected]

Vladimir Radionov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia, [email protected]

Georgiy Stenchikov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, [email protected]

Giuseppe Zibordi, European Commission – Joint Research Center, Italy, [email protected]

Przemysław Makuch, Institute of Oceanology, Poland, [email protected]

Micheline Jenner, Centre for Whale Research, Australia, [email protected]

Heitor Evangelista, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, [email protected]

Anja Van der Plas, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia, [email protected]

Steve Groom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom, [email protected]

Paul Zieger, Stockholm University, Sweden, [email protected]

Shannon Hoy, NOAA Ocean Exploration, USA, [email protected]

Derek Sowers, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire, USA, [email protected]

Ruhi Humphries, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, [email protected]

Robyn Schofield, University of Melbourne, Australia, [email protected]

Sen Chiao, Howard University, USA, [email protected]

Berend Van de Kraats, OceansX, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Thomas Eck, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA, [email protected]

Ilya Slutsker, Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI), USA, [email protected]

Norman O’Neill, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada, [email protected]

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