New Ocean Subsurface Optical Properties From Space Lidars: CALIOP/CALIPSO and ATLAS/ICESat‐2

Earth and Space Science

Yuekui Yang¹  Thomas Neumann¹  Rosemary Baize²  Mark Vaughan²  Yongxiang Hu²  Charles Trepte²  Ali Omar²  Brian Getzewich²  Chris Hostetler²  David Winker²  Xiaomei Lu³  Sharon Rodier³  Patricia Lucker³ 

[1] NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA;NASA Langley Research Center Hampton VA USA;Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton VA USA;

关键词: CALIPSO;    ICESat‐2;    ocean;    lidar;    particulate backscattering coefficient;   

DOI  :  10.1029/2021EA001839

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Remote sensing from Earth‐observing satellites is now providing valuable information about ocean phytoplankton distributions. This paper presents the new ocean subsurface optical properties obtained from two space‐based lidars: the Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard the Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations satellite and the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) aboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite‐2 satellite. Obtaining reliable estimates of subsurface biomass necessitates removing instrument artifacts peculiar to each sensor, that is, polarization crosstalk artifacts in the CALIOP signals and after pulsing effects arising from the ATLAS photodetectors. We validate the optical properties derived from the corrected lidar backscatter signals using MODerate‐resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ocean color measurements and autonomous biogeochemical Argo float profiles. Our results support the continued use of present and future spaceborne lidars to study the global plankton system and characterize its vertical structures in the upper ocean.

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