Author(s)

T. Holzer-Popp & M. Schroedter

Abstract

In the last few years presentations at the WIT Air Pollution conferences have demonstrated the possibilities of remote sensing of particle concentrations from space over land and ocean (Holzer-Popp et al. [1, 2]). This paper describes the results of a first large-scale effort using the advanced capabilities of satellite monitoring of the global aerosol distribution by a synergetic retrieval algorithm. The major improvement lies in the capability to separate several components of the total particulate matter. As one example a climatological data set over Europe and Africa is presented, which was derived from fourteen months of synergetic observations of the aerosol optical signal. The results obtained include optical (aero

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