A geometry-dependent surface Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity product for UV–Vis retrievals – Part 2: Evaluation over open ocean

Fasnacht, Zachary; Vasilkov, Alexander; Haffner, David; Qin, Wenhan; Joiner, Joanna; Krotkov, Nickolay; Sayer, Andrew M.; Spurr, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6749-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6749-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6749-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

Research article

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19 Dec 2019

Research article |

| 19 Dec 2019

A geometry-dependent surface Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity product for UV–Vis retrievals – Part 2: Evaluation over open ocean

Zachary Fasnacht, Alexander Vasilkov, David Haffner, Wenhan Qin, Joanna Joiner, Nickolay Krotkov, Andrew M. Sayer, and Robert Spurr

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RC1: 'manuscript review', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Zachary Fasnacht, 14 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Comments on "A geometry-dependent surface Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity product for UV/Vis retrievals: Part II. Evaluation over open ocean" authored by Z. Fasnacht et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Zachary Fasnacht, 14 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Zachary Fasnacht on behalf of the Authors (16 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Oct 2019) by Jun Wang

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (21 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Nov 2019)

ED: Publish as is (10 Nov 2019) by Jun Wang

Short summary

The anisotropy of Earth's surface reflection plays an important role in satellite-based retrievals of cloud, aerosol, and trace gases. Most current ultraviolet and visible satellite retrievals utilize climatological surface reflectivity databases that do not account for surface anisotropy. The GLER concept was introduced to account for such features. Here we evaluate GLER for water surfaces by comparing with OMI measurements and show that it captures these surface anisotropy features.