Hal Maring

TL;DR: The NASA Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission was conducted in two 3-week deployments based in Alaska (April 2008) and western Canada (June-July 2008) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report measurements of the light-scattering properties of North African dust delivered to Barbados by the North Atlantic trade winds and conclude that African mineral dust should be the dominant lightscattering aerosol throughout the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review the algorithms developed for these sensors in terms of four key elements that influence the quality of passive satellite aerosol retrieval: calibration, cloud screening, classification of aerosol types, and surface effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the size distributions of airborne mineral dust over the Canary Islands during July 1995 and Puerto Rico during July 2000 and found that larger particles were preferentially removed during atmospheric transport.

TL;DR: The NASA Glory mission as discussed by the authors is intended to facilitate and improve upon long-term monitoring of two key forcings influencing global climate by flying two state-of-the-art science instruments on an Earth-orbiting platform.