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Retrieval of Aerosol Properties

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Atmospheric aerosol is a suspension of liquid and solid particles in air, i.e. the aerosol includes both particles and its surrounding medium; in practice aerosol is usually referred to as the suspended matter, i.e. the particles or the droplets, depending on their aggregation state.

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The work described in this Chapter was supported by EU-FP6 projects ACCENT, EUCAARI and GEMS, EU-FP7 projects MEGAPOLI and MACC. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of many global modelling groups contributing to AeroCom exercises and the support of many remote sensing groups, in particular the AERONET group by providing input on site assessments for data quality and regional representation We thank the ICARE thematic centre for providing an easy access to the MODIS and POLDER data and products used in this paper.

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de Leeuw, G. et al. (2011). Retrieval of Aerosol Properties. In: Burrows, J., Borrell, P., Platt, U. (eds) The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14791-3_6

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