Earth System Science Data (Sep 2020)
The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) airborne field campaign
- K. Knobelspiesse,
- H. M. J. Barbosa,
- H. M. J. Barbosa,
- C. Bradley,
- C. Bruegge,
- B. Cairns,
- G. Chen,
- J. Chowdhary,
- J. Chowdhary,
- A. Cook,
- A. Di Noia,
- B. van Diedenhoven,
- B. van Diedenhoven,
- D. J. Diner,
- R. Ferrare,
- G. Fu,
- M. Gao,
- M. Gao,
- M. Garay,
- J. Hair,
- D. Harper,
- G. van Harten,
- O. Hasekamp,
- M. Helmlinger,
- C. Hostetler,
- O. Kalashnikova,
- A. Kupchock,
- A. Kupchock,
- K. Longo De Freitas,
- K. Longo De Freitas,
- H. Maring,
- J. V. Martins,
- B. McBride,
- M. McGill,
- K. Norlin,
- A. Puthukkudy,
- B. Rheingans,
- J. Rietjens,
- F. C. Seidel,
- F. C. Seidel,
- A. da Silva,
- M. Smit,
- S. Stamnes,
- Q. Tan,
- S. Val,
- A. Wasilewski,
- F. Xu,
- X. Xu,
- J. Yorks
Affiliations
- K. Knobelspiesse
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- H. M. J. Barbosa
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de Sāo Paulo, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
- H. M. J. Barbosa
- NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA
- C. Bradley
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- C. Bruegge
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- B. Cairns
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
- G. Chen
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- J. Chowdhary
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
- J. Chowdhary
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- A. Cook
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- A. Di Noia
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicestershire, UK
- B. van Diedenhoven
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
- B. van Diedenhoven
- Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- D. J. Diner
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- R. Ferrare
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- G. Fu
- SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- M. Gao
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- M. Gao
- Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, USA
- M. Garay
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- J. Hair
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- D. Harper
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- G. van Harten
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- O. Hasekamp
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicestershire, UK
- M. Helmlinger
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- C. Hostetler
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- O. Kalashnikova
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- A. Kupchock
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- A. Kupchock
- Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, USA
- K. Longo De Freitas
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- K. Longo De Freitas
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
- H. Maring
- NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA
- J. V. Martins
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
- B. McBride
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
- M. McGill
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- K. Norlin
- NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, USA
- A. Puthukkudy
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
- B. Rheingans
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- J. Rietjens
- SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- F. C. Seidel
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- F. C. Seidel
- NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA
- A. da Silva
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- M. Smit
- SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- S. Stamnes
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- Q. Tan
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- S. Val
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- A. Wasilewski
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
- F. Xu
- School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- X. Xu
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
- J. Yorks
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2183-2020
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12
pp. 2183 – 2208
Abstract
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. ACEPOL is a resource for remote sensing communities as they prepare for the next generation of spaceborne MAP and lidar missions. Data are appropriate for algorithm development and testing, instrument intercomparison, and investigations of active and passive instrument data fusion. They are freely available to the public. The DOI for the primary database is https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACEPOL2017/DATA001 (ACEPOL Science Team, 2017), while for AirMSPI it is https://doi.org/10.5067/AIRCRAFT/AIRMSPI/ACEPOL/RADIANCE/ELLIPSOID_V006 and https://doi.org/10.5067/AIRCRAFT/AIRMSPI/ACEPOL/RADIANCE/TERRAIN_V006 (ACEPOL AirMSPI 75 Science Team, 2017a, b). GroundMSPI data are at https://doi.org/10.5067/GROUND/GROUNDMSPI/ACEPOL/RADIANCE_v009 (GroundMSPI Science Team, 2017). Table 3 lists further details of these archives. This paper describes ACEPOL for potential data users and also provides an outline of requirements for future field missions with similar objectives.
