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On the efficiency of polarization measurements while studying aerosols in the terrestrial atmosphere

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It has been shown that the orbital polarization measurements of the Earth in the spectral range λ > 300 nm do not allow the sets of the Stokes parameters satisfying the homogeneity requirement for the optical properties of the “atmosphere + surface” system to be retrieved. Due to this, the atmospheric and surface contributions cannot be correctly separated and the physical properties of the atmospheric aerosol cannot be determined. This is caused by the optical heterogeneity of the system, the different nature of aerosol above different relief features, and the poorly predictable temporal changes of the optical properties of the “atmosphere + surface” system. Observations at λ < 300 nm are more acceptable, since not only the surface but also the tropospheric layer of the atmosphere, which are both mostly subjected to the effects of horizontal inhomogeneity and temporal variations, become practically invisible due to a high absorption by the ozone layer. Because of this, from the scans along specified latitude zones, one may obtain the quasi-homogeneous dependences of the second Stokes parameter Q(α) (U(α) = 0) suitable for estimating the physical characteristics of the stratospheric aerosol and revealing their horizontal and temporal variations.

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    A. V. Morozhenko, A. P. Vidmachenko, P. V. Nevodovskiy & N. M. Kostogryz

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Morozhenko, A.P. Vidmachenko, P.V. Nevodovskiy, N.M. Kostogryz, 2014, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2014, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 17–32.

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Morozhenko, A.V., Vidmachenko, A.P., Nevodovskiy, P.V. et al. On the efficiency of polarization measurements while studying aerosols in the terrestrial atmosphere. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 30, 11–21 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591314010061

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