Abstract
The paper is devoted to the introduction of a new technique to derive the aerosol mass load and particle number concentration from spaceborne observations. It is based on the simultaneous determination of the spectral aerosol optical thickness (AOT) τ and the spectral effective Lambertian ground reflectance A for a given scene using the aerosol retrieval algorithm developed by us. The aerosol mass is proportional to the measured AOT with the coefficient of proportionality dependent on the effective radius a ef of aerosol particles. The value of a ef can be estimated from the slope of the function τ( λ), where λ is the wavelength. The developed technique is applied to SeaWiFs imagery data over Moscow.
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