An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band

McHardy, T. M.; Zhang, J.; Reid, J. S.; Miller, S. D.; Hyer, E. J.; Kuehn, R. E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4773-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4773-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4773-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 11

Research article

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16 Nov 2015

Research article |

| 16 Nov 2015

An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band

T. M. McHardy, J. Zhang, J. S. Reid, S. D. Miller, E. J. Hyer, and R. E. Kuehn

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C1593: 'Comment on "An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band"', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jun 2015
- AC C3118: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Sep 2015
RC C1691: 'Review comment on “An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band” by T. M. McHardy et al.', Jingfeng Huang, 25 Jun 2015
- AC C3119: 'Response to Dr. Huang', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Sep 2015
RC C1731: 'Interactive comment on “An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band” by T. M. Hardy et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 29 Jun 2015
- AC C3120: 'Response to reviewer 3', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Sep 2015
RC C1926: 'An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the VIIRS Day/Night Band', Anonymous Referee #4, 08 Jul 2015
- AC C3121: 'Response to reviewer 4', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Sep 2015

Short summary

Using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) data, a new method is developed for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness values through the examination of the dispersion of radiance values above an artificial light source. Preliminary results suggest that artificial light sources can be used for estimating regional and global nighttime aerosol distributions in the future.