Abstract
A fast technique, based on approximation to atmospheric radiative transfer in the solar aureole, is presented for the retrieval of aerosol size distribution from multispectral measurements of both scattered sky radiance and extinction by aerosol media. In this approximation, it is assumed that for a relatively clear day, the sky radiance is due to single scattering by molecules and aerosols, and to multiple scattering by molecules alone. The accuracy of this approximation is discussed in connection with the inversion of scattered radiation data. Results for aerosol size distributions retrieved from multispectral solar extinction measurements by the nonlinear least squares method are discussed, and the retrievals are found to be accurate when checked against ground truth measurements.
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