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Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL)

Four multi-angle polarimeters and two atmosphere profiling lidar instruments were deployed on NASA's high altitude ER-2 aircraft in late 2017 from the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California. A collaboration between NASA (ACE mission) and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), ACEPOL targeted a wide variety of scene types in order to test and validate ocean, aerosol and cloud observations. ACEPOL also was supported by the CALIPSO mission for validation purposes. ACEPOL is particularly relevant for PACE because of the participation of airborne versions of the HARP2 and SPEXone instruments, and provides valuable data for algorithm development and instrument characterization.

Launch Date
September 2017
Class
Field Campaign
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Four multi-angle polarimeters and two atmosphere profiling lidar instruments were deployed on NASA's high altitude ER-2 aircraft in late 2017 from the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California. A collaboration between NASA (ACE mission) and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), ACEPOL targeted a wide variety of scene types in order to test and validate ocean, aerosol and cloud observations. ACEPOL also was supported by the CALIPSO mission for validation purposes. ACEPOL is particularly relevant for PACE because of the participation of airborne versions of the HARP2 and SPEXone instruments, and provides valuable data for algorithm development and instrument characterization.