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In algorithms for the atmospheric correction of visible and near-IR satellite observations of the Earth’s surface, it is generally assumed that the spectral variation of aerosol optical depth is characterized by an Ångström power law or similar dependence. In an iterative fitting algorithm for atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery over case 2 waters, this assumption leads to an inability to retrieve the aerosol type and to the attribution to aerosol spectral variations of spectral effects actually caused by the water contents. An improvement to this algorithm is described in which the spectral variation of optical depth is calculated as a function of aerosol type and relative humidity, and an attempt is made to retrieve the relative humidity in addition to aerosol type. The aerosol is treated as a mixture of aerosol components (e.g., soot), rather than of aerosol types (e.g., urban). We demonstrate the improvement over the previous method by using simulated case 1 and case 2 sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor data, although the retrieval of relative humidity was not successful.
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