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Measurements of Polarized Light Scattering by Atmospheric Particles with the Passive Aerosol and Cloud
Suite (PACS)
J. Vanderlei Martins1,2,3, Roberto Fernandez-Borda1,2, Leroy Sparr3, Gergely Dolgos1,2, Reed Espinosa1,2,
Steven Buczkowski1,2, Lorraine Remer2,Zhibo Zhang1,2,3
LACO
1- Depatment of Physics, UMBC 2- Joint Center for Earth Systems and Technology 3- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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PACS – Passive Aerosol and Cloud Suite:
• Multi-Angle Imaging Polarimeters for Aircraft and Space
• UV, Hyperangular VIS, SWIR
• High resolution cameras • TIR • VIS-SWIR
• Aircraft in situ validation • PI-Neph (Polarized Imaging Nephelometer) • Open-Ineph (Open Path System)
In preparation for NASA ACE Mission
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PI-Neph: Measuring In situ Aerosols P11 and P12 from Aircraft
See Dolgos et al. presentation coming soon…
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Scattered Laser Light
Open Imaging Nephelometer in the NASA P3 Aircraft
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Removing the enclosure present in typical nephelometers and imaging a laser that traverses the exterior of an aircraft permits the entire phase matrix P(θ) of ice crystals and aerosols to be measured in their natural state.
Open Imaging Nephelometer in the NASA P3 Aircraft
Signal
Solar Background
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Distance Across Beam pixels
Intensity
Beam Profile
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PACS Airborne ER2 Polarimeter PACS ER-2 Facts
Current VNIR system • Ground Resolution = 37m • Swath = 37km • 470, 550, 670, 766, 870nm • 1 K pixel X-track • 65+ angles for all wavelengths • 130 view angles for 670nm • 110° FOV cross track • +/- 55° FOV along track
SWIR Under construction: • 1650, 1880, 2130, 2250nm • 320x256 pixels • Adjustable FOV • Mounted together with PACS VNIR
PACS Observing Geometry
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PACS Observing Geometry:
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PACS Observing Geometry:
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Three Polarized Images
Single View Pushbroom
0°
45° 90°
PACS
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Demonstration of the PACS Prism:
Example of Cross track nadir image of a cloud field over land
3 Simultaneous Polarized Images at 0, 45 and 90°
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Examples of PACS Data from PODEX Intensity DoLP
Intensity DoLP
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Hyperangular Capability Provides Cloudbow from small
area (~2x2km from space)
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PACS Wide FOV Lens and Prism
Calibration Challenges???
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PACS Calibration Strategy Intensities are measured in each port from
known Stokes vector inputs
A characteristic Matrix is determined to represent the PACS Optics at different
FOVs
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Elements of the PACS Characteristic Matrix as a function of FOV
FOV
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HARP CubeSat Mission HyperAngular Rainbow Polarimeter – Funded by NASA InVEST Program
Planned for 2015 30
cm
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Thank you.