Hourly Mapping of the Layer Height of Thick Smoke Plumes Over the Western U.S. in 2020 Severe Fire Season

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• Journal Title:
  Frontiers in Remote Sensing
• Personal Author:
  Lu, Zhendong ; Wang, Jun ; Xu, Xiaoguang ; Chen, Xi ; Kondragunta, Shobha ; Torres, Omar ; Wilcox, Eric M. ; Zeng, Jing
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  A series of huge smoke plume events from the largest wildfire season recorded in California’s modern history has occurred in 2020. Here, a research algorithm was modified to retrieve the aerosol optical centroid height (AOCH) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) from Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) measurements. The research focus is to gain insights of the algorithm’s feasibility in heavy smoke conditions to study the diurnal variation of AOCH; this is only made possible via EPIC due to its unique position at Lagrange-1 point and its equipment of O2 B-band at which the vegetated surface reflectance is low.
• Keywords:
  Aerosol Retrieval Algorithms AOCH California Fires DSCOVR EPIC Hourly Variation Surface PM2.5 Thick Smoke Layer
• Source:
  Front. Remote Sens. 2, 766628
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.766628
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA21OAR4310249
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5ff55969e7efb890dd0900b5ddf05f85194930914212d6db503170bc9caf56f8
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41792/noaa_41792_DS1.pdf
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