Abstract
We present a simplified atmospheric correction algorithm for snow/ice albedo retrievals using single view satellite measurements. The validation of the technique is performed using Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) on board Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite and ground spectral or broadband albedo measurements from locations on the Greenland ice sheet and in the French Alps. Through comparison with independent ground observations, the technique is shown to perform accurately in a range of conditions from a 2100 m elevation mid-latitude location in the French Alps to a network of 15 locations across a 2390 m elevation range in seven regions across the Greenland ice sheet. Retrieved broadband albedo is accurate within 5% over a wide (0.5) broadband albedo range of the (N = 4155) Greenland observations and with no apparent bias.
Highlights
There is a decreasing trend in both the extent and the reflective power of the terrestrial cryosphere with important climate change feedbacks [1,2,3,4]
While the algorithm is portable to other multi-spectral instruments observing the cryosphere from space, we present an application to data from the Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) on board the European Union Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite
The earlier atmospheric correction used in [6], which appears in OLCI Snow Properties module incorporated in the European Space Agency (ESA) SeNtinel Application Platform (SNAP), can be biased in case of strong atmospheric pollution episodes because it neglects scattering and absorption by liquid and solid particles suspended in atmosphere
Summary
There is a decreasing trend in both the extent and the reflective power of the terrestrial cryosphere with important climate change feedbacks [1,2,3,4]. The earlier atmospheric correction used in [6], which appears in OLCI Snow Properties module incorporated in the European Space Agency (ESA) SeNtinel Application Platform (SNAP), can be biased in case of strong atmospheric pollution episodes (arctic haze, etc.) because it neglects scattering and absorption by liquid and solid particles suspended in atmosphere. This shortcoming of the previous algorithm as presented in [6] is eliminated in this study
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