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Di Noia et al. 2017

Di Noia, A., O.P. Hasekamp, L. Wu, B. van Diedenhoven, B. Cairns, and J.E. Yorks, 2017: Combined neural network/Phillips-Tikhonov approach to aerosol retrievals over land from the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4235-4252, doi:10.5194/amt-10-4235-2017.

In this paper, an algorithm for the retrieval of aerosol and land surface properties from airborne spectropolarimetric measurements — combining neural networks and an iterative scheme based on Phillips-Tikhonov regularization — is described. The algorithm — which is an extension of a scheme previously designed for ground-based retrievals — is applied to measurements from the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) on board the NASA ER-2 aircraft. A neural network, trained on a large data set of synthetic measurements, is applied to perform aerosol retrievals from real RSP data, and the neural network retrievals are subsequently used as a first guess for the Phillips-Tikhonov retrieval. The resulting algorithm appears capable of accurately retrieving aerosol optical thickness, fine-mode effective radius and aerosol layer height from RSP data. Among the advantages of using a neural network as initial guess for an iterative algorithm are a decrease in processing time and an increase in the number of converging retrievals.

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@article{di06100q,
  author={Di Noia, A. and Hasekamp, O. P. and Wu, L. and van Diedenhoven, B. and Cairns, B. and Yorks, J. E.},
  title={Combined neural network/Phillips-Tikhonov approach to aerosol retrievals over land from the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter},
  year={2017},
  journal={Atmospheric Measurement Techniques},
  volume={10},
  pages={4235--4252},
  doi={10.5194/amt-10-4235-2017},
}

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - di06100q
AU  - Di Noia, A.
AU  - Hasekamp, O. P.
AU  - Wu, L.
AU  - van Diedenhoven, B.
AU  - Cairns, B.
AU  - Yorks, J. E.
PY  - 2017
TI  - Combined neural network/Phillips-Tikhonov approach to aerosol retrievals over land from the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
JA  - Atmos. Meas. Tech.
JO  - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
VL  - 10
SP  - 4235
EP  - 4252
DO  - 10.5194/amt-10-4235-2017
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