title: Simultaneous determination of water-leaving reflectance and aerosol optical thickness from Coastal Zone Color Scanner measurements.
abstract: We present an iterative algorithm for the simultaneous determination of water-leaving reflectances and aerosol optical thickness from the total outgoing radiances measured in the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) visible and near-infrared channels. Numerical experiments were carried out to investigate the feasibility of the algorithm. The results show that the errors in determined water-leaving reflectance at 0.443 microm are approximately 10% in most cases. The errors in determined water-leaving reflectance at 0.55 microm are in the 4.05-7.2% range. The errors in the simultaneously determined aerosol optical thickness for all CZCS visible and near-infrared channels are less than approximately 10%.
authors.affiliation: Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima