Name:PARASOL-OC2
Description:POLDER/PARASOL is a wide field of view imaging radiometer that provides systematic measurements of spectral, directional and polarized properties of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth/atmosphere system.
Since beginning of 2005, PARASOL has flown onboard CNES/Myriade microsatellite within the A-Train Constellation (including MODIS, CALIPSO...), providing the scientific community with an unparalleled amount of data that enhances our knowledge on radiative and microphysic properties of clouds and aerosols.
Currently, the aerosol products on sea retrieved from PARASOL are given at 20 km of resolution, 3 times the native resolution of the instrument (between 6 and 7 km). We aim to lower the product resolution to the instrument one, but the processing then takes much more time to be completed. When doing climatologies (on seasonal or yearly bases) to check our hypotheses, the processing time with usual methods of computing become too long for practical studies.
Abstract:POLDER/PARASOL is a wide field of view imaging radiometer that provides systematic measurements of spectral, directional and polarized properties of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth/atmosphere system. <BR/><BR/>Since beginning of 2005, PARASOL has flown onboard CNES/Myriade microsatellite within the A-Train Constellation (including MODIS, CALIPSO...), providing the scientific community with an unparalleled amount of data that enhances our knowledge on radiative and microphysic properties of clouds and aerosols.<BR/><BR/>Currently, the aerosol products on sea retrieved from PARASOL are given at 20 km of resolution, 3 times the native resolution of the instrument (between 6 and 7 km). We aim to lower the product resolution to the instrument one, but the processing then takes much more time to be completed. When doing climatologies (on seasonal or yearly bases) to check our hypotheses, the processing time with usual methods of computing become too long for practical studies.<BR/>

Created:2010-05-01
Last updated:2010-05-01