Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3485-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3485-2019
Research article
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02 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 02 Jul 2019

Stratospheric aerosol characteristics from space-borne observations: extinction coefficient and Ångström exponent

Elizaveta Malinina, Alexei Rozanov, Landon Rieger, Adam Bourassa, Heinrich Bovensmann, John P. Burrows, and Doug Degenstein

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This paper covers the problems related to the derivation of aerosol extinction coefficients and Ångström exponents from space-borne instruments working in limb and occultation viewing geometries. Aerosol extinction coefficients and Ångström exponents were calculated from the SCIAMACHY aerosol particle size data set. The results were compared with the data from SAGE II and OSIRIS. The Ångström exponent in the tropical regions and its dependency on particle size parameters are discussed.