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Eck, Thomas F., Brent N. Holben, Jeffrey S. Reid, Alexander Sinyuk, David M. Giles, Antti Arola, Ilya Slutsker, Joel S. Schafer, Mikhail G. Sorokin, Alexander Smirnov, Anthony D. LaRosa, Jason Kraft, Elizabeth A. Reid, Norman T. O'Neill, E.J. Welton, Arsenio R. Menendez, The extreme forest fires in California/Oregon in 2020: Aerosol optical and physical properties and comparisons of aged versus fresh smoke, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 305, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119798

Flores, A., R.K.Sakai, E.Joseph, N.R.Nalli, A.Smirnov, B.Demoz, V.R.Morris, D.Wolfe, and S.Chiao, On Saharan Air Layer stability and suppression of convection over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: case study analysis of a 2007 dust outflow event, Atmosphere, 14, 707, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14040707

Gumber, A., Reid, J. S., Holz, R. E., Eck, T. F., Hsu, N. C., Levy, R. C., Zhang, J., and Veglio, P.: Assessment of severe aerosol events from NASA MODIS and VIIRS aerosol products for data assimilation and climate continuity, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 2547-2573, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2547-2023

O'Neill, N. T., Ranjbar, K., Ivănescu, L., Eck, T. F., Reid, J. S., Giles, D. M., Pérez-Ramírez, D., and Chaubey, J. P.: Relationship between the sub-micron fraction (SMF) and fine-mode fraction (FMF) in the context of AERONET retrievals,Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1103-1120, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1103-2023

Pereira, P.S., E.A.Santos, H.Evangelista, N.Magalhaes, and A.Smirnov, Aerosol optical properties over the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean during the 2010-2012 summer seasons as part of the global Maritime Aerosol Network, Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 95 (Suppl. 3), e20210816, doi:10.1590/0001-3765202320210816.2022, 2023.

Rubin, J. I., Reid, J. S., Xian, P., Selman, C. M., and Eck, T. F.: A global evaluation of daily to seasonal aerosol and water vapor relationships using a combination of AERONET and NAAPS reanalysis data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 4059-4090, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4059-2023

Toledano, C., V.E.Cachorro, D.Mateos, R.Roman, R.Gonzalez, A.Smirnov, J.Grobner, S.Kazadzis, N.Kouremeti, Sun photometers, in: N.R.Nalli (editor) Field Measurements for Passive Environmental Remote Sensing, p.121-138, Springer Polar Sciences. Elsevier Inc., 2023, ISBN: 978-0-12-823953-7 (https://www.elsevier.com/books/field-measurements-for-passive-environmental-remote-sensing/nalli/978-0-12-823953-7).

Montes, M., N.Pahlevan, D.M.Giles, J.-C.Roger, P.W.Zhai, B.Smith, R.Levy, P.J.Werdell, and A.Smirnov, Augmenting heritage ocean-color aerosol models for enhanced remote sensing of inland and nearshore coastal waters, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 3, 860816, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.860816, 2022.

Reid, J.S., A.Gumber, J.Zhang, R.E.Holz, J.I.Rubin, P.Xian, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, N.T.O'Neill, R.C.Levy, E.A.Reid, P.R.Colarco, A.Benedetti, and T.Tanaka, A coupled evaluation of operational MODIS and model aerosol products for maritime environments using Sun photometry: Evaluation of the fine and coarse mode, Remote Sensing, 14, 2978, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132978, 2022.

Sinyuk, A., Holben, B. N., Eck, T. F., Giles, D. M., Slutsker, I., Dubovik, O., Schafer, J. S., Smirnov, A., and Sorokin, M.: Employing relaxed smoothness constraints on imaginary part of refractive index in AERONET aerosol retrieval algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 4135–4151, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4135-2022, 2022.

Sujin Eom, Jhoon Kim, Seoyoung Lee, Brent N. Holben, Thomas F. Eck, Sung-Bin Park, Sang Seo Park, Long-term variation of aerosol optical properties associated with aerosol types over East Asia using AERONET and satellite (VIIRS, OMI) data (2012-2019),Atmospheric Research, Volume 280, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106457

Ja-Ho Koo, Juhee Lee, Jhoon Kim, Thomas F. Eck, David M. Giles, Brent N. Holben, Sang Seo Park, Myungje Choi, Najin Kim, Jongmin Yoon, Yun Gon Lee, Investigation of the relationship between the fine mode fraction and Ångström exponent: Cases in Korea, Atmospheric Research, 248, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105217

Marshak, A., Ackerman, A., da Silva, A. M., Eck, T., Holben, B., Kahn, R., Kleidman, R., Knobelspiesse, K., Levy, R., Lyapustin, A., Oreopoulos, L., Remer, L., Torres, O., Várnai, T., Wen, G., & Yorks, J. (2021). Aerosol Properties in Cloudy Environments from Remote Sensing Observations: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(11), E2177-E2197. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0225.1

Stevens, B., Bony, S., Farrell, D., Ament, F., Blyth, A., Fairall, C., Karstensen, J., Quinn, P. K., Speich, S., Acquistapace, C., Aemisegger, F., Albright, A. L., Bellenger, H., Bodenschatz, E., Caesar, K.-A., Chewitt-Lucas, R., de Boer, G., Delanoë, J., Denby, L., Ewald, F., Fildier, B., Forde, M., George, G., Gross, S., Hagen, M., Hausold, A., Heywood, K. J., Hirsch, L., Jacob, M., Jansen, F., Kinne, S., Klocke, D., Kölling, T., Konow, H., Lothon, M., Mohr, W., Naumann, A. K., Nuijens, L., Olivier, L., Pincus, R., Pöhlker, M., Reverdin, G., Roberts, G., Schnitt, S., Schulz, H., Siebesma, A. P., Stephan, C. C., Sullivan, P., Touzé-Peiffer, L., Vial, J., Vogel, R., Zuidema, P., Alexander, N., Alves, L., Arixi, S., Asmath, H., Bagheri, G., Baier, K., Bailey, A., Baranowski, D., Baron, A., Barrau, S., Barrett, P. A., Batier, F., Behrendt, A., Bendinger, A., Beucher, F., Bigorre, S., Blades, E., Blossey, P., Bock, O., Böing, S., Bosser, P., Bourras, D., Bouruet-Aubertot, P., Bower, K., Branellec, P., Branger, H., Brennek, M., Brewer, A., Brilouet, P.-E., Brügmann, B., Buehler, S. A., Burke, E., Burton, R., Calmer, R., Canonici, J.-C., Carton, X., Cato Jr., G., Charles, J. A., Chazette, P., Chen, Y., Chilinski, M. T., Choularton, T., Chuang, P., Clarke, S., Coe, H., Cornet, C., Coutris, P., Couvreux, F., Crewell, S., Cronin, T., Cui, Z., Cuypers, Y., Daley, A., Damerell, G. M., Dauhut, T., Deneke, H., Desbios, J.-P., Dörner, S., Donner, S., Douet, V., Drushka, K., Dütsch, M., Ehrlich, A., Emanuel, K., Emmanouilidis, A., Etienne, J.-C., Etienne-Leblanc, S., Faure, G., Feingold, G., Ferrero, L., Fix, A., Flamant, C., Flatau, P. J., Foltz, G. R., Forster, L., Furtuna, I., Gadian, A., Galewsky, J., Gallagher, M., Gallimore, P., Gaston, C., Gentemann, C., Geyskens, N., Giez, A., Gollop, J., Gouirand, I., Gourbeyre, C., de Graaf, D., de Groot, G. E., Grosz, R., Güttler, J., Gutleben, M., Hall, K., Harris, G., Helfer, K. C., Henze, D., Herbert, C., Holanda, B., Ibanez-Landeta, A., Intrieri, J., Iyer, S., Julien, F., Kalesse, H., Kazil, J., Kellman, A., Kidane, A. T., Kirchner, U., Klingebiel, M., Körner, M., Kremper, L. A., Kretzschmar, J., Krüger, O., Kumala, W., Kurz, A., L'Hégaret, P., Labaste, M., Lachlan-Cope, T., Laing, A., Landschützer, P., Lang, T., Lange, D., Lange, I., Laplace, C., Lavik, G., Laxenaire, R., Le Bihan, C., Leandro, M., Lefevre, N., Lena, M., Lenschow, D., Li, Q., Lloyd, G., Los, S., Losi, N., Lovell, O., Luneau, C., Makuch, P., Malinowski, S., Manta, G., Marinou, E., Marsden, N., Masson, S., Maury, N., Mayer, B., Mayers-Als, M., Mazel, C., McGeary, W., McWilliams, J. C., Mech, M., Mehlmann, M., Meroni, A. N., Mieslinger, T., Minikin, A., Minnett, P., Möller, G., Morfa Avalos, Y., Muller, C., Musat, I., Napoli, A., Neuberger, A., Noisel, C., Noone, D., Nordsiek, F., Nowak, J. L., Oswald, L., Parker, D. J., Peck, C., Person, R., Philippi, M., Plueddemann, A., Pöhlker, C., Pörtge, V., Pöschl, U., Pologne, L., Posyniak, M., Prange, M., Quiñones Meléndez, E., Radtke, J., Ramage, K., Reimann, J., Renault, L., Reus, K., Reyes, A., Ribbe, J., Ringel, M., Ritschel, M., Rocha, C. B., Rochetin, N., Röttenbacher, J., Rollo, C., Royer, H., Sadoulet, P., Saffin, L., Sandiford, S., Sandu, I., Schäfer, M., Schemann, V., Schirmacher, I., Schlenczek, O., Schmidt, J., Schröder, M., Schwarzenboeck, A., Sealy, A., Senff, C. J., Serikov, I., Shohan, S., Siddle, E., Smirnov, A., Späth, F., Spooner, B., Stolla, M. K., Szkółka, W., de Szoeke, S. P., Tarot, S., Tetoni, E., Thompson, E., Thomson, J., Tomassini, L., Totems, J., Ubele, A. A., Villiger, L., von Arx, J., Wagner, T., Walther, A., Webber, B., Wendisch, M., Whitehall, S., Wiltshire, A., Wing, A. A., Wirth, M., Wiskandt, J., Wolf, K., Worbes, L., Wright, E., Wulfmeyer, V., Young, S., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Ziemen, F., Zinner, T., and Zöger, M.: EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067-4119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021, 2021.

Carolyn E. Jordan, James H. Crawford, Andreas J. Beyersdorf, Thomas F. Eck, Hannah S. Halliday, Benjamin A. Nault, Lim-Seok Chang, JinSoo Park, Rokjin Park, Gangwoong Lee, Hwajin Kim, Jun-young Ahn, Seogju Cho, Hye Jung Shin, Jae Hong Lee, Jinsang Jung, Deug-Soo Kim, Meehye Lee, Taehyoung Lee, Andrew Whitehill, James Szykman, Melinda K. Schueneman, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose L. Jimenez, Joshua P. DiGangi, Glenn S. Diskin, Bruce E. Anderson, Richard H. Moore, Luke D. Ziemba, Marta A. Fenn, Johnathan W. Hair, Ralph E. Kuehn, Robert E. Holz, Gao Chen, Katherine Travis, Michael Shook, David A. Peterson, Kara D. Lamb, Joshua P. Schwarz; Investigation of factors controlling PM2.5 variability across the South Korean Peninsula during KORUS-AQ. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 1 January 2020; 8 28. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.424

Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Kim, J., Beyersdorf, A. J., Choi, M., Lee, S., Koo, J.-H., Giles, D. M., Schafer, J. S., Sinyuk, A., Peterson, D. A., Reid, J. S., Arola, A., Slutsker, I., Smirnov, A., Sorokin, M., Kraft, J., Crawford, J. H., Anderson, B. E., Thornhill, K. L., Diskin, G., Kim, S.-W., and Park, S. (2020), Influence of cloud, fog, and high relative humidity during pollution transport events in South Korea: Aerosol properties and PM2.5 variability, 232, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117530

Kokhanovsky, A., A.Smirnov, S.V.Korkin, G.Wind, and I.Slutsker, The retrieval of cloud properties based on spectral solar light diffuse transmittance measurements under optically thick cloud cover conditions, J.Q.S.R.T., 251, 107008, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107008).

Kokhanovsky, A., C.Tomasi, A.Smirnov, A.Herber, R.Neuber, A.Ehrlich, A.Lupi, B.Petkov, M.Mazzola, C.Ritter, C.Toledano, T.Carlund, V.Vitale, B.Holben, T.Zielinski, S.Bélanger, P.Larouche, S.Kinne, V.Radionov, M.Wendisch, J.Tackett, D.Winker, Remote Sensing of Arctic Atmospheric Aerosols, in: A.Kokhanovsky, C.Tomasi (eds) Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere, p.505-589, Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33566-3_9).

Kokhanovsky, A., J.Box, B.Vandecrux, K.Mankoff, M.Lamare, A.Smirnov, M.Kern, The determination of snow albedo from satellite measurements using fast atmospheric correction technique, Remote Sensing, 12, 234, doi:10.3390/rs12020234, 2020.

Sinyuk, A., Holben, B. N., Eck, T. F., Giles, D. M., Slutsker, I., Korkin, S., Schafer, J. S., Smirnov, A., Sorokin, M., and Lyapustin, A.: The AERONET Version 3 aerosol retrieval algorithm, associated uncertainties and comparisons to Version 2, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 3375–3411, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3375-2020, 2020.

Zibordi, G., Holben, B. N., Talone, M., D’Alimonte, D., Slutsker, I., Giles, D. M., & Sorokin, M. G. (2020). Advances in the Ocean Color component of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET-OC), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/aop/JTECH-D-20-0085.1/JTECH-D-20-0085.1.xml

Bian, H., K.Froyd, D.M.Murphy, J.Dibb, M.Chin, P.Colarco, A.Darmenov, A. da Silva, T.Kucsera, G.Schill, H.Yu, P.Bui, M.Dollner, B.Weinzierl, and A.Smirnov, Observationally constrained analysis of sea salt aerosol in the marine atmosphere, Atm.Chem.Phys., 19, 10773-10785, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10773-2019).

Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Giles, D. M., Slutsker, I., Sinyuk, A., Schafer, J. S., et al. (2019). AERONET remotely sensed measurements and retrievals of biomass burning aerosol optical properties during the 2015 Indonesian burning season. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 4722–4740. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030182

Giles, D. M., Sinyuk, A., Sorokin, M. G., Schafer, J. S., Smirnov, A., Slutsker, I., Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Lewis, J. R., Campbell, J. R., Welton, E. J., Korkin, S. V., and Lyapustin, A. I. (2019): Advancements in the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Version 3 database – automated near-real-time quality control algorithm with improved cloud screening for Sun photometer aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 169-209, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-169-2019.

Martins, V., A.I.Lyapustin, Y.Wang, D.M.Giles, A.Smirnov, I.Slutsker, S.Korkin, Global validation of columnar water vapor derived from EOS MODIS-MAIAC algorithm against the ground-based AERONET observations, Atm.Res., 225, 181-192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.04.005, 2019.

Pérez-Ramírez, D., A.Smirnov, R.T.Pinker, M.Petrenko, R.Romián, W.Chen, C.Ichoku, S.Noël, G.Gonzalez Abad, H.Lyamani, and B.N.Holben, Precipitable water vapor over oceans from the Maritime Aerosol Network: Evaluation of global models and satellite products under clear sky conditions, Atm.Res., 215, 294-304, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.09.007, 2019.

Schafer, J. S., Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Thornhill, K. L., Ziemba, L. D., Sawamura, P., Moore, R. H., Slutsker, I., Anderson, B. E., Sinyuk, A., Giles, D. M., Smirnov, A., Beyersdorf, A. J., and Winstead, E. L.: Intercomparison of aerosol volume size distributions derived from AERONET ground-based remote sensing and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011–2014 DRAGON and DISCOVER-AQ experiments, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5289–5301, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5289-2019, 2019.

Witek, M.L., M.J.Garay, D.J.Diner, and A.Smirnov, A revised outlook on aerosols over oceans from MISR V23 retrievals, J.Geophys.Res.-Atmospheres, 124, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031065).

Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Reid, J. S., Xian, P.,Giles, D. M., Sinyuk, A., et al. (2018). Observations of the interaction andtransport of fine mode aerosols withcloud and/or fog in Northeast Asia fromAerosol Robotic Network and satelliteremote sensing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028313

Holben, B. N., Kim, J., Sano, I., Mukai, S., Eck, T. F., Giles, D. M., Schafer, J. S., Sinyuk, A., Slutsker, I., Smirnov, A., Sorokin, M., Anderson, B. E., Che, H., Choi, M., Crawford, J. H., Ferrare, R. A., Garay, M. J., Jeong, U., Kim, M., Kim, W., Knox, N., Li, Z., Lim, H. S., Liu, Y., Maring, H., Nakata, M., Pickering, K. E., Piketh, S., Redemann, J., Reid, J. S., Salinas, S., Seo, S., Tan, F., Tripathi, S. N., Toon, O. B., and Xiao, Q. (2018): An overview of mesoscale aerosol processes, comparisons, and validation studies from DRAGON networks, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 655-671, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-655-2018.

Smirnov, A., T.B.Zhuravleva, M.Segal-Rozenheimer, and B.N.Holben, Limitations of AERONET SDA product in presence of cirrus clouds, J.Q.S.R.T., 206, 338-341, doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.12.007, 2018.

Volkova, K.A., A.V.Poberovsky, Yu.M.Timofeev, D.V.Ionov, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, I.Slutsker, Aerosol optical characteristics retrieved from measurements of CIMEL sun photometer (AERONET) near Saint Petersburg, Atm.Ocean.Optics, 31(6), 425–431, doi: 10.15372/AOO20180601, 2018.

Berezin, I.A., Yu.M.Timofeyev, Ya.A.Virolainen, I.S.Frantsuzova, K.A.Volkova, A.V.Poberovsky, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, and I. Slutsker, Error analysis of integrated water vapor measured by CIMEL photometer, Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 53, N1, 58-64, doi: 10.1134/S0001433817010030, 2017.

Randles, C.A., A.M. da Silva, V.Buchard, P.R.Colarco, A.Darmenov, R.Govindarajua, A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, R.Ferrare, J.Hair, Y.Shinozuka, and C.J.Flynn, The MERRA-2 aerosol reanalysis, 1980 - onward, Part I: System description and data assimilation evaluation, J.Climate, 30, 6823-6850, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0609.1, 2017.

Sayer A.M., N.C.Hsu, J.Lee, C.Bettenhausen, W.Kim, and A.Smirnov, Satellite Ocean Aerosol Retrieval (SOAR) algorithm extension to S-NPP VIIRS as part of the 'Deep Blue' aerosol project, J. Geophys. Res., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD027412, 2017.

Sayer, A.M., N.C.Hsu, J.Lee, N.Carletta, S.-H.Chen, and A.Smirnov, Evaluation of NASA Deep Blue/SOAR aerosol retrieval algorithms applied to AVHRR measurements, J.Geophys.Res.-Atmospheres, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD026934, 2017.

Smirnov, A., M.Petrenko, C.Ichoku, and B.N.Holben, Maritime Aerosol Network optical depth measurements and comparison with satellite retrievals from various different sensors, SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2017, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-14, 2017 (Proc. SPIE, 10424, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXII, doi: 10.1117/12.2277113).

Zhuravleva, T.B., D.M.Kabanov, I.M.Nasrtdinov, T.V.Russkova, S.M.Sakerin, A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Radiative characteristics of aerosol under smoke mist conditions in Siberia during summer 2012, Atmos.Meas.Tech., 10, 179-198, doi:10.5194/amt-10-179-2017, 2017.

Randles, C.A., A.M. da Silva, V.Buchard, A.Darmenov, P.R.Colarco, V.Aquila, H.Bian, E.P.Nowottnick, X.Pan, A.Smirnov, H.Yu, and R.Govindaraju, The MERRA-2 aerosol assimilation, Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/TM–2016-104606/Vol. 45, (R.D.Koster, Editor), pp.1-156, 2016.

Reid, J.S., N.D.Lagrosas, H.H.Jonsson, E.A.Reid, S.A.Atwood, T.J.Boyd, V.P.Ghate, P.Xian, D.J.Posselt, J.B.Simpas, S.Uy, K.Zaige, D.R.Blake, A.Bucholtz, J.R.Campbell, B.N.Chew, S.S.Cliff, B.N.Holben, R.E.Holz, E.J.Hyer, S.M.Kreidenweis, A.P.Kuciauskas, S.Lolli, M.Oo, K.D.Perry, S.V.Salinas, W.R.Sessions, A.Smirnov, A.L.Walker, Q.Wang, L.Yu, J.Zhang, Y.Zhao, Aerosol meteorology of Maritime Continent for the 2012 7SEAS southwest monsoon intensive study - Part 2: Philippine receptor observations of fine-scale aerosol behavior, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 14057-14078, doi:10.5194/acp-16-14057-2016, 2016.

Sakerin, S.M., D.M.Kabanov, V.V.Polkin, V.F.Radionov, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Variations in optical and microphysical characteristics of aerosol along the route of Russian Antarctic Expeditions in the East Atlantic, Atm.Ocean.Optics, 29, doi: 10.15372/AOO20160808, 2016.

Brindley, H., S.Osipov, R.Bantges, A.Smirnov, J.Banks, R.Levy, P.Jish Prakash, and G.Stenchikov, An assessment of the quality of aerosol retrievals over the Red Sea and evaluation of the climatological cloudfree dust direct radiative effect in the region, J.Geophys.Res.-Atmospheres, 120, doi:10.1002/ 2015JD023282, 2015.

Christensen, M., J.Zhang, J.S.Reid, X.Zhang, E.J.Hyer, and A.Smirnov, A theoretical study of the effect of subsurface oceanic bubbles on the enhanced aerosol optical depth band over the southern oceans as detected from MODIS, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2149-2160, doi:10.5194/amt-8-2149-2015, 2015.

Knobelspiesse, K., van Diedenhoven, B., Marshak, A., Dunagan, S., Holben, B., & Slutsker, I. (2015). Cloud thermodynamic phase detection with polarimetrically sensitive passive sky radiometers. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8, 1537-1554. http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/8/1537/2015/amt-8-1537-2015.html

Reid, J.S., N.Lagrosas, H.H.Jonsson, E.A.Reid, W.R.Sessions, J.B.Simpas, S.N.Uy, T.J.Boyd, S.A.Atwood, D.R.Blake, J.R.Campbell, S.S.Cliff, B.N.Holben, R.E.Holz, E.J.Hyer, P.Lynch, S.Meinardi, D.J.Posselt, K.Richardson, S.V.Salinas, A.Smirnov, Q.Wang, L.Yu, and J.Zhang, Observations of the temporal variability in aerosol properties and their relationships to meteorology in the summer monsoonal South China Sea/East Sea: The role of monsoonal flows, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, tropical cyclones, squall lines and cold pools, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 1745-1768, doi:10.5194/acp-15-1745-2015, 2015.

Tomasi, C., A.A.Kokhanovsky, A.Lupi, C.Ritter, A.Smirnov, N.T.O'Neill, R.S.Stone, B.N.Holben, S.Nyeki, C.Wehrli, A.Stohl, M.Mazzola, C.Lanconelli, V.Vitale, K.Stebel, V.Altonen, G. de Leeuw, E.Rodriguez, A.B.Herber, V.F.Radionov, T.Zielinski, T.Petelski, S.M.Sakerin, D.M.Kabanov, Y.Xue, L.Mei, L.Istomina, R.Wagener, B.McArthur, P.S.Sobolewski, R.Kivi, Y.Courcoux, P.Larouche, S.Broccardo, S.J.Piketh, Aerosol remote sensing in polar regions, Earth-Science Reviews, 140, 108-157, doi: 10.106/j.earscirev.2014.11.001, 2015.

Zibordi, G., Mélin, F., Berthon, J.-F., and Talone, M. (2015): In situ autonomous optical radiometry measurements for satellite ocean color validation in the Western Black Sea, Ocean Sci., 11, 275-286, doi:10.5194/os-11-275-2015.

Bulgarelli, B., V. Kiselev, and G. Zibordi, 2014: Simulation and Analysis of Adjacency Effects in Coastal Waters: A Case Study, Applied Optics, 53, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.53.001523.

Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Reid, J. S., Arola, A., Ferrare, R. A., Hostetler, C. A., Crumeyrolle, S. N., Berkoff, T. A., Welton, E. J., Lolli, S., Lyapustin, A., Wang, Y., Schafer, J. S., Giles, D. M., Anderson, B. E., Thornhill, K. L., Minnis, P., Pickering, K. E., Loughner, C. P., Smirnov, A., and Sinyuk, A.: Observations of rapid aerosol optical depth enhancements in the vicinity of polluted cumulus clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 11633-11656, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-11633-2014, 2014. (PDF)

Gergely, M.; Zibordi, G. Assessment of AERONET-OC LWN uncertainties. Metrologia, 51 (2014) 40–47, doi:10.1088/0026-1394/51/1/40.

Kajiyama, T., D'Alimonte, D.; Zibordi, G. "Match-Up Analysis of MERIS Radiometric Data in the Northern Adriatic Sea." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, 11, 19-24, 2014.

Pérez-Ramírez, D., D.N.Whiteman, A.Smirnov, H.Lyamani, B.Holben, R.Pinker, M.Andrade, L.Alados-Arboledas, Evaluation of AERONET precipitable water vapor versus microwave radiometry, GPS and radiosondes at ARM sites, J. Geophys. Res.Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/ 2014JD021730, 2014.

Sakerin, S.M., S.A.Beresnev, D.M.Kabanov, G.I.Kornienko, S.V.Nikolashkin, V.A.Poddubny, M.A.Tashchilin, Yu.S.Turchinovich, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, Analysis of various approaches in intra-annual and spectral modelling of aerosol optical depth over Siberian and Far East regions, Atmos.Ocean.Opt., 27(12), 1047-1058, 2014.

Sakerin, S.M., S.Yu.Andreev, D.M.Kabanov, S.V.Nikolashkin, A.N.Prakhov, V.F.Radionov, Yu.S.Turchinovich, D.G.Chernov, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, M.G.Sorokin, On results of studies of atmospheric aerosol optical depth in Arctic regions, Atmos.Ocean.Opt., 27 (6), 517-528, 2014.

Sayer, A.M., N.C.Hsu, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, AERONET-based models of smoke-dominated aerosol near source regions and transported over oceans, and implications for satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depth, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 11493-11523, 2014.

Schafer, J. S., et al. (2014), Intercomparison of aerosol single-scattering albedo derived from AERONET surface radiometers and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011 DRAGON-MD and DISCOVER-AQ experiments, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD021166.

Arola, A., T.F.Eck, J. Huttunen, K.E.J.Lehtinen, A.V.Lindfors, G.Myhre, A.Smirnov, S.N.Tripathi, and H.Yu, Influence of observed diurnal cycles of aerosol optical depth on aerosol direct radiative effect, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 7895-7901, 2013.

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, M. M. Mukelabai, S. J. Piketh, O. Torres, H. T. Jethva, E. J. Hyer, D. E. Ward, O. Dubovik, A. Sinyuk, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, M. Sorokin, A. Smirnov and I. Slutsker   (2013),  A seasonal trend of single scattering albedo in southern African biomass-burning particles: Implications for satellite products and estimates of emissions for the world's largest biomass-burning source,  J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.,118, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50500.

N.Meskhidze, M.D.Petters, K.Tsigaridis, T.Bates, C.O'Dowd, J.Reid, E.R.Lewis, B.Gantt, M.D.Anguelova, P.V.Bhave, J.Bird, A.H.Callaghan, D.Ceburnis, R.Chang, A.Clarke, G. de Leeuw, G.Deane, P.J.DeMott, S.Elliot, M.C.Facchini, C.W.Fairall, L.Hawkins, Y.Hu, J.G.Hudson, M.S.Johnson, K.C.Kaku, W.C.Keene, D.J.Kieber, M.S.Long, M.Mårtensson, R.L.Modini, C.L.Osburn, K.A.Prather, A.Pszenny, M.Rinaldi, L.M.Russell, M.Salter, A.M.Sayer, A.Smirnov, S.R.Suda, T.D.Toth, D.R.Worsnop, A.Wozniak and S.R.Zorn, Production mechanisms, number concentration, size distribution, chemical composition, and optical properties of sea spray aerosols, Atmos. Sci. Let., doi: 10.1002/asl2.441, 2013.

Kajiyama, T.; D'Alimonte, D.; Zibordi, G. Regional algorithms for European seas: a case study based on MERIS data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, 10: 283-287, 2013.

Omar, A. H., D. M. Winker, J. L. Tackett, D. M. Giles, J. Kar, Z. Liu, M. A. Vaughan, K. A. Powell, and C. R. Trepte (2013), CALIOP and AERONET aerosol optical depth comparisons: One size fits none, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 4748–4766, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50330.

Sakerin, S.M., N.I.Vlasov, D.M.Kabanov, K.E.Lubo-Lesnichenko, A.N.Prakhov, V.F.Radionov, Yu.S.Turchinovich, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Results of spectral aerosol optical depth measurements within the framework of the 58 Russian Antarctic Expedition, Atmos.Ocean.Opt., 27 (12), 1059-1067, 2013.

Toth, T.D., J.Zhang, J.R. Campbell, J.S.Reid, Y.Shi, R.S.Johnson, A.Smirnov, M.A.Vaughan, and D.M.Winker, Investigating enhanced Aqua MODIS aerosol optical depth retrievals over the mid-to-high latitude Southern Oceans through intercomparison with co-located CALIOP, MAN, and AERONET data sets, J. Geophys. Res, 118, 4700-4714, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50311, 2013.

Witek, M.L., M.J.Garay, D.J.Diner, and A.Smirnov, Aerosol optical depths over oceans: a view from MISR retrievals and collocated MAN and AERONET in-situ observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 12620-12633, doi:10.1002/2013JD020393, 2013.

Zibordi, G., Mélin, F., Berthon, J. F., and Canuti, E. (2013). Assessment of MERIS ocean color data products for European seas. Ocean Science Discussions, 9, 521–533, 2013, doi:10.5194/os-9-521-2013.

Chubarova, N., Y.Nezval', M.Sviridenkov, A.Smirnov, and I.Slutsker, Smoke aerosol and its radiative effects during extreme fire event over Central Russia in summer 2010, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 557-568, doi:10.5194/amt-5-557-2012, 2012.

Chiu, J. C., A. Marshak., C.-H. Huang, T. Várnai, R. J. Hogan, D. M. Giles, B. N. Holben, E. J. O'Connor, Y. Knyazikhin, and W. J. Wiscombe (2012): Cloud droplet size and liquid water path retrievals from zenith radiance measurements: examples from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program and the Aerosol Robotic Network, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 10313-10329, doi:10.5194/acp-12-10313-2012.

Eck T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, D. M. Giles, M. A Rivas, R. P. Singh, S. N. Tripathi, C. J. Bruegge, S. Platnick, G. T. Arnold, N. A.Krotkov, S. A. Cam, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Arola, J. S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, A. Smirnov, H. Chen, and P. Goloub (2012), Fog- and cloud-induced aerosol modification observed by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), J. Geophys. Res, 117, D07206, doi:10.1029/2011JD016839.

Giles, D. M., B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, A. Sinyuk, A. Smirnov, I. Slutsker, R. R. Dickerson, A. M. Thompson, and J. S. Schafer (2012), An analysis of AERONET aerosol absorption properties and classifications representative of aerosol source regions, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D17203, doi:10.1029/2012JD018127.

Huang, J., N.C.Hsu, S.-C.Tsay, B.N.Holben, E.J.Welton, A.Smirnov, M.-J.Jeong, R.A.Hansell, and T.A.Berkoff, Evaluations of thin cirrus contamination and screening in ground aerosol observations using collocated lidar systems, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D15204, doi:10.1029/2012JD017757, 2012.

Kleidman, R.G., A.Smirnov, R.C.Levy, S.Mattoo, and D.Tanre, Evaluation and windspeed dependence of MODIS aerosol retrievals over open ocean, IEEE Trans. Geosci.Rem.Sens., 50, 429-435, 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162073, 2012.

Sayer, A.M., A.Smirnov, N.C.Hsu, L.A.Munchak, and B.N.Holben, Estimating marine aerosol particle volume and number from Maritime Aerosol Network data, Atm. Chem. Phys., 12, 8889-8909, 2012.

Sayer, A.M., A. Smirnov, N.C. Hsu, B.N. Holben, A pure marine aerosol model for use in remote sensing applications, J.Geophys. Res., 117, D05213, doi: 10.1029/2011JD016689, 2012.

Sayer, A.M., N.C. Hsu, C. Bettenhausen, Z. Ahmad, B.N. Holben, A. Smirnov, G.E. Thomas, and J. Zhang, SeaWiFS Ocean Aerosol Retrieval (SOAR): algorithm, validation, and comparison with other datasets, J.Geophys. Res., 117, D03206, doi: 10.1029/ 2011JD016599, 2012.

Sinyuk, A., B. N. Holben, A. Smirnov, T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, and M. Sorokin (2012), Assessment of error in aerosol optical depth measured by AERONET due to aerosol forward scattering, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L23806, doi:10.1029/2012GL053894.

Smirnov, A., A.M. Sayer, B.N. Holben, N.C. Hsu, S.M. Sakerin, A.Macke, N.B. Nelson, Y. Courcoux, T.J. Smyth, P. Croot, P.K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S.K. Gulev, S. Piketh, R. Losno, S. Kinne, and V.F. Radionov, Effect of wind speed on aerosol optical depth over remote oceans, based on data from the Maritime Aerosol Network, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 377-388, doi:10.5194/amt-5-377-2012, 2012.

Zhang, Y., H.Yu, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, M.Chin, L.A.Remer, H.Bian, Q.Tan, R.Levy, B.N.Holben, and S.Piazolla, Aerosol daytime variations over North and South America derived from multi-year AERONET measurements, J.Geophys. Res., 117, D05211, doi:10.1029/2011JD017242, 2012.

Zibordi, Giuseppe; Mélin, F.; Berthon, J.-F. Trends in the Bias of Primary Satellite Ocean-Color Products at a Coastal Site. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, 2012, 9: 1056-1060.

Zibordi, G., Ruddick, K., Ansko, I., Moore, G., Kratzer, S., Icely, J., & Reinart, A. (2012). In situ determination of the remote sensing reflectance: an inter-comparison. Ocean Science, 8, 567–586, 2012, doi:10.5194/os-8-567-2012.

Zibordi, G.; Mélin, F.; Berthon, J.-F. Intra-annual variations of biases in remote sensing primary ocean color products at a coastal site. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012, 124: 627-636.

Zibordi G. (2012), Comment on "Long Island Sound Coastal Observatory: assessment of above-water radiometric measurement uncertainties using collocated multi and hyperspectral systems", Appl. Opt., 51, ,17, 3888-3892, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.51.003888.

Adames, A.F., M.Reynolds, A.Smirnov, D.S.Covert, and T.P.Ackerman, Comparison of MODIS ocean aerosol retrievals with ship-based sun photometer measurements from the "Around the America's" expedition, J.Geophys.Res., 116, D16303, doi: 10.1029/ 2010JD015440, 2011.

Chubarova, N.E., A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Aerosol properties in Moscow according to 10 years of AERONET measurements at the meteorological observatory of Moscow State University, Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, 4(1), 2011.

Chubarova, N.E., A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Aerosol properties in Moscow according to 10 years of AERONET measurements at the meteorological observatory of Moscow State University, Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, 4(1), 2011.

Gautam, R., N.C. Hsu, S.C. Tsay, K.M. Lau, B. Holben, S. Bell, A. Smirnov, C. Li, R. Hansell, Q. Ji, S. Payra, D. Aryal, R. Kayastha, and K.M. Kim, Accumulation of aerosols over the Indo-Gangetic plains and southern slopes of the Himalayas: distribution, properties and radiative effects during the 2009 pre-monsoon Season, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 12841-12863, doi:10.5194/acp-11-12841-2011, 2011.

G.I.Gorchakov, M.A. Sviridenkov, E.G. Semutnikova, N.E. Chubarova, B.N. Holben, A.V. Smirnov, A.S. Emilenko, A.A. Isakov, V.M. Kopeikin, A.V. Karpov, E.A. Lezina, and O.S. Zadorozhnaya, Optical and microphysical parameters of the aerosol in the smoky atmosphere of the Moscow region in 2010, Doklady Akademii Nauk, 437, N5, 686-690, 2011.

Giles, D. M., B. N. Holben, S. N. Tripathi, T. F. Eck, W. W. Newcomb, I. Slutsker, R. R. Dickerson, A. M. Thompson, S. Mattoo, S.-H. Wang, R. P. Singh, A. Sinyuk, and J. S. Schafer (2011), Aerosol properties over the Indo-Gangetic Plain: A mesoscale perspective from the TIGERZ experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18203, doi:10.1029/2011JD015809.

Jamet, C., H. Loisel, C. P. Kuchinke, K. Ruddick, G. Zibordi, and H. Feng (2011), Comparison of three SeaWiFS atmospheric correction algorithms for turbid waters using AERONET-OC measurements, Rem. Sens. Env., 115, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.018.

Kim, D., M. Chin, H. Yu, T.F. Eck, A. Sinyuk, A. Smirnov, and B. N. Holben, Dust optical properties over North Africa and Arabian Peninsula derived from the AERONET dataset, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10733-10741, doi:10.5194/acp-11-10733-2011, 2011.

Lapina, K., C.L.Heald, D.V. Spracklen, S.R.Arnold, J.D.Allan, H.Coe, G.McFiggans, S.R.Zorn, F.Drewnick, T.S.Bates, L.N.Hawkins, L.M.Russell, A.Smirnov, C.D.O'Dowd, and A.J. Hind, Investigating organic aerosol loading in the remote marine environment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 8847-8860, doi:10.5194/acp-11-8847-2011, 2011.

Lee, Z. P., K. Du, K. J. Voss, G. Zibordi, B. Lubac, R. Arnone, and A. Weidemann (2011), An inherent-optical-property-centered approach to correct the angular effects in water-leaving radiance, Appl. Opt., 50, 3155-3167, doi: 10.1364/AO.50.003155.

Lyapustin, A., A.Smirnov, B.Holben, M.Chin, D.G.Streets, Z.Lu, R.Kahn, I.Slutsker, I.Laszlo, S.Kondragunta, D.Tanre, O.Dubovik, P.Goloub, H.-B.Chen, A.Sinyuk, Y.Wang, and S.Korkin, Reduction of aerosol absorption in Beijing since 2007 from MODIS and AERONET, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10803, doi:10.1029/2011GL047306, 2011.

Mélin F., G. Zibordi, J.-F. Berthon, S. Bailey, B. Franz, K. Voss, S. Flora, and M. Grant (2011), Assessment of MERIS reflectance data as processed with SeaDAS over the European seas, Opt. Express, 19, 25657-25671, doi: 10.1364/OE.19.025657.

Nalli, N.R., E.Joseph, V.R.Morris, C.D.Barnet, W.W.Wolf, D.Wolfe, P.J.Minnett, M.Szczodrak, M.A.Izaguirre, R.Lumpkin, H.Xie, A.Smirnov, and J.Wei, Multi-year observations of the tropical Atlantic atmosphere: Multidisciplinary applications of the NOAA Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE), Bull.Am.Meteor.Soc., 92 (6), 765-789, doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS2997.1, 2011.

Radionov, V.F., Ye.N.Rusina, S.M.Sakerin, Ye.Ye.Sibir, and A.V.Smirnov, Atmospheric radiation balance components and atmospheric aerosol optical parameters in Antarctica during the International Polar Year, in Meteorological and Geophysical Studies, p. 158-159, edited by G.V.Alexeyev, Paulsen, Moscow, Russia, 2011.

Sakerin, S.M., S.Yu.Andreyev, T.V.Bedareva, D.M.Kabanov, G.I.Kornienko, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Aerosol optical thickness over Far East based on multi-year satellite and ground-based measurements, Atm.Ocean.Optics, 24(8), 654-660, 2011.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, D.M.Giles, I.Slutsker, N.T.O'Neill, T.F.Eck, A.Macke, P.Croot, Y.Courcoux, S.M.Sakerin, T.J.Smyth, T.Zielinski, G.Zibordi, J.I.Goes, M.J.Harvey, P.K.Quinn, N.B.Nelson, V.F.Radionov, C.M.Duarte, R.Losno, J.Sciare, K.J.Voss, S.Kinne, N.R.Nalli, E.Joseph, K.K.Moorthy, D.Covert, S.K.Gulev, G.Milinevsky, P.Larouche, S.Belanger, E.Horne, M.Chin, L.A.Remer, R.A.Kahn, J.S.Reid, M.Schulz, C.L.Heald, J.Zhang, K.Lapina, R.G.Kleidman, J.Griesfeller, B.J.Gaitley, Q.Tan, and T.L.Diehl, Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of AERONET - first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals, Atm.Meas.Tech., 4, 583-597, doi:10.5194/amt-4-583-2011, 2011.

Chiu, J. C., C.-H. Huang, A. Marshak, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, B. N. Holben, Y. Knyazikhin, and W. J. Wiscombe, 2010: Cloud optical depth retrievals from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). J. Geophys. Res., 115, D14202, doi:10.1029/2009JD013121.

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, A. Sinyuk, R. T. Pinker, P. Goloub, H. Chen, B. Chatenet, Z. Li, R. P. Singh, S. N. Tripathi, J. S. Reid, D. M. Giles, O. Dubovik, N. T. O’Neill, A. Smirnov, P. Wang, and X. Xia (2010), Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D19205, doi:10.1029/2010JD014002.

Kahn, R.A., B.J.Gaitley, M.Garay, S.Paradise, D.J. Diner, J.V.Martonchik, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, and B.N. Holben, MISR global aerosol product assessment by comparison with AERONET, J.Geophys.Res., 115, D23209, doi:10.1029/2010JD014601, 2010.

Mélin, F. & G. Zibordi, Vicarious calibration of satellite ocean color sensors at two coastal sites, Appl. Opt., 49, 798-810. 2010

Mélin, F., M.Clerici, G.Zibordi, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Validation of SeaWiFS and MODIS aerosol products with globally distributed AERONET data, Rem. Sens. Env., 114, 230-250, 2010.

Moorthy, K.K., S.N.Beegum, S.S.Babu, A.Smirnov, S. Rachel John, K.R.Kumar, K.Narasimhulu, C.Dutt, and V.S.Nair, Optical and physical characteristics of Bay of Bengal Aerosols during W_ICARB: Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in the marine atmospheric boundary layer and in the vertical column, J.Geophys.Res., 115, D24213, doi:10.1029/2010JD014094, 2010.

Wilson, D.I., S.J.Piketh, A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, and B.Kuyper, Aerosol optical properties over the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean during the 140th cruise of the M/V S.A. Agulhas, Atm.Res., 98, 285-296, 2010.

Zibordi, G., B. Holben, F. Melin, D. D'Alimonte, J.-F Berthon, I. Slutsker, and D. Giles (2010), AERONET-OC: an overview, Can. J. Rem. Sens., 36, 5, doi: 10.5589/m10-073.

Alexandrov, M.A., B.Schmid, D.D.Turner, B.Cairns, V.Oinas, A.A.Lacis, S.I.Gutman, E.R.Westwater, A.Smirnov, and J.Eilers, Columnar water vapor retrievals from MFRSR data, J.Geophys.Res., 114, D02306, doi:10.1029/2008JD010543, 2009.

Cong, Z., S.Kang, A.Smirnov, and B.Holben, Aerosol optical properties at Nam Co, a remote site in central Tibetan Plateau, Atm. Res., 92, 42-48, 2009.

Eck, T. F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, E.J. Hyer, N.T. O’Neill, G.E. Shaw, J.R. Vande Castle, F.S. Chapin, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E. Vermote, J.S. Schafer, D. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokine, and W. W. Newcomb (2009), Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D11201, doi:10.1029/2008JD010870.

F.Mélin, G.Zibordi and S. Djavidnia (2009). Merged series of normalized water leaving radiance from multiple ocean color missions for the Mediterranean Sea. Advances in Space Research, 43, 423-437.

Livingston, J.M., J.Redemann, P.B.Russell, O.Torres, B.Veihelmann, P.Veefkind, R.Braak, A.Smirnov, L.Remer, R.W.Bergstrom, O.Coddington, K.S.Schmidt, P.Pilewskie, R.Johnson, and Q.Zhang, Comparison of aerosol optical depths from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura with results from airborne sunphotometry, other space and ground measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX-B, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6743-6765, 2009.

Sakerin, S.M., S.A.Beresnev, S.Yu.Gorda, D.M.Kabanov, G.I.Kornienko, Yu.I.Markelov, A.V.Mikhalev, S.V.Nikolashkin, M.V.Panchenko, V.A.Poddubny, V.V.Pol'kin, A.V.Smirnov, M.A.Tashchilin, S.A.Turchinovich, Yu.S.Turchinovich, B.N.Holben, and T.A.Eremina, Annual aerosol spectral optical depth characterization in Siberia, Atm.Ocean.Optics, 22(6), 566-574, 2009.

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, C. R. McClain, T. F. Eck, S. M. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P. K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T. J. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J. I. Goes, N. B. Nelson, P. Larouche, V. F. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Krishna Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E. J. Robertson, and F. Jourdin 2009, Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011257.

Zibordi, G., J.-F.Berthon, F.Mélin, D. D’Alimonte and S.Kaitala (2009): Validation of satellite ocean color primary products at optically complex coastal sites: northern Adriatic Sea, northern Baltic Proper and Gulf of Finland. Rem. Sens. of Environ. , 113, 2574-2591.

Zibordi, G., B. Holben, I. Slutsker, D. Giles, D. D’Alimonte, F. Mélin, J.F. Berthon, D. Vandemark, H. Feng, G. Schuster, B.E. Fabbri, S. Kaitala, and J. Seppälä (2009): AERONET-OC: A Network for the Validation of Ocean Color Primary Products. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 26, 1634–1651, DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHO654.1.

D'Alimonte, D., Zibordi, G., Mélin, F. (2008):  A statistical method for generating cross-mission consistent normalized water leaving radiances. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 46., 4075-4093, 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2001819.

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D. Giles, N. T. O’Neill, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A. Al Mandoos, M. Ramzan Khan, E. A. Reid, J. S. Schafer, M. Sorokine, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker (2008), Spatial and temporal variability of column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in summer, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D01204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008944. (PDF)

Feng, H., Vandemark, D., Campbell, J. W. and Holben, B. N. (2008):  Evaluation of MODIS ocean colour products at a northeast United States coast site near the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory. Intl. J. of Remote Sensing, 29 (15), 4479-4497.

O'Neill, N. T., T.F.Eck, J.S.Reid, A.Smirnov, and O.Pancrati, Coarse mode optical information retrievable using ultraviolet to short-wave infrared Sun photometry: Application to United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol Experiment data, J.Geophys.Res., 113, D05212, doi:10.1029/2007JD009052, 2008.

Sakerin, S.M., D.M.Kabanov, A.V.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Aerosol optical depth of atmosphere over the oceans in the wavelength range 0.37-4 mm, Int. J. Rem. Sens. 29, 2519-2547, 2008.

Sakerin S.M., D.M.Kabanov, V.F.Radionov, I.A.Slutsker, A.V.Smirnov, S.A.Terpugova, and B.N.Holben, About investigation results on the atmosphere aerosol optical depth in circumnavigation around Antarctica (the 53d RAE), Atm.Ocean.Optics, 21(12), 900-904, 2008.

Schafer, J. S., T. F. Eck, B. N. Holben, P. Artaxo, and A. F. Duarte (2008), Characterization of the optical properties of atmospheric aerosols in Amazônia from long-term AERONET monitoring (1993–1995 and 1999–2006), J. Geophys. Res., 113, D04204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009319.

Tian, B., D.E.Waliser, R.A.Kahn, Q.Li, Y.L.Yung, T.Tyranowski, I.V.Geogdzhayev, M.I.Mishchenko, O.Torres, and A.Smirnov, Does the Madden-Julian oscillation influence aerosol variability? J.Geophys.Res., 113, D12215, doi:10.1029/2007JD009372, 2008.

F. Melin and G. Zibordi (2007): Optically based technique for producing merged spectra of water-leaving radiances from ocean color remote sensing. Appl. Opt., 46, 3856-3869.

Malyshkin, A.V., V.A.Poddubny, Yu.I.Markelov, S.A.Beresnev, C.Yu.Gorda, S.M.Sakerin, and A.V.Smirnov, Middle Ural in the AEROSIBNET system: preliminary analysis of regional sources of the atmospheric aerosol contamination, Atm. Ocean. Optics, 20, 457-460, 2007.

Sakerin, S.M., A.Smirnov, D.M.Kabanov, V.V.Pol'kin, M.V.Panchenko, B.N.Holben, and O.V.Kopelevich, Aerosol optical and microphysical properties over the Atlantic Ocean during the 19th cruise of the Research Vessel "Akademik Sergey Vavilov", J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10220, doi:10.1029/2006JD007947, 2007.

Sakerin, S.M., D.M.Kabanov, V.S.Kozlov, M.V.Panchenko, V.V.Polkin, A.B.Tikhomirov, N.I.Vlasov, V.F.Radionov, A.V.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, I.A.Slutsker, and L.P.Golobokova, Results of the studies of aerosol characteristics in the 52 RAE, Problems of Arctic and Antarctica, 77, p.67-75, 2007.

Sinyuk, A., O. Dubovik, B. Holben, T.F. Eck, F-M Breon, J. Martonchik, R. Kahn, D. J. Diner, E. F. Vermote, J-C Roger, T. Lapyonok, and I. Slutsker, Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and surface properties from a combination of AERONET and satellite, Rem. Sens. of Env., 107, 2007, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.07.022.

Vermote, E.F., J-C Roger, A. Sinyuk, N. Saleous, and O. Dubovik, Fusion of MODIS-MISR aerosol inversion for estimation of aerosol absorption, Rem. Sens. of Env., 107, 2007, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.025.

Chiu, J. C., A. Marshak, Y. Knyazikhin, W. J. Wiscombe, H. W. Barker, J. C. Barnard, and Y. Luo, 2006: Remote sensing of cloud properties using ground-based measurements of zenith radiance. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D16201, doi:10.1029/2005JD006843.

D'Alimonte, D., Zibordi, G. (2006): Statistical assessment of radiometric measurements from autonomous systems IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens., 44, 719-728, 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862505.

Dubovik, O., A. Sinyuk, T. Lapyonok, B. N. Holben, M. Mishchenko, P. Yang, T. F. Eck, H. Volten, O. Munoz, B. Veihelmann, W. J. van der Zande, J-F Leon, M. Sorokin, and I. Slutsker, 2006: Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remonte sensing of desert dust. J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006619.

Holben, B. N., T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, A Sinyuk, J. Schafer, D. Giles, O. Dubovik, 2006: Aeronet’s Version 2.0 quality assurance criteria, Proc. SPIE 6408, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds, 64080Q, doi:10.1117/12.706524. (PDF)

Holben, B.N., T. Eck, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, A. Sinyuk, J. Schafer, D. Giles, O. Dubovik, AERONET Version 2.0 quality assurance criteria, SPIE, Goa, India, 13-17 November, 2006. (PDF)

Lyapustin, A., Y.Wang, J.Martonchik, J.L.Privette, B.Holben, I.Slutsker, A.Sinyuk, A.Smirnov, Local analysis of MISR surface BRF and albedo over GSFC and Mongu AERONET sites, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 44, 1707-1718, 2006.

Pires, C., M. A. Paixo, P. Artaxo, E. B. Pereira and B. Holben: Impact of smoke aerosol from amazonian biomass burning on South American atmospheric environment during September 2004. In: 1st ILEAPS Science Conference, 2006, Boulder, CO, USA, 2006.

Sakerin, S.M., D.M.Kabanov, A.V.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, I.Slutsker, D.Giles, and O.V.Kopelevich, Variability of aerosol optical layer of the atmosphere in South Atlantic, Basic Researches of Oceans and Seas, p. 127-145, edited by N.P. Laverov, Book 1, Nauka, Moscow, Russia, 2006.

Schmid, B., R.Ferrare, C.Flynn, R.Elleman, D.Covert, A.Strawa, E.Welton, D.Turner, H.Jonsson, J.Redemann, J.Eilers, K.Ricci, A.G.Hallar, M.Clayton, J.Michalsky, A.Smirnov, B.Holben, and J.Barnard, How well do state-of-the-art techniques measuring the vertical profile of tropospheric aerosol extinction compare? J.Geophys.Res., 111, D05S07, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005837, 2006.

Schuster, G.L., O. Dubovik, and B.N. Holben: Angstrom exponent and bimodal aerosol size distributions, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D07207, doi:10.1029/2005JD006328, 2006.

Smirnov, A., B.N. Holben, S. M. Sakerin, D.M. Kabanov, I. Slutsker, M. Chin, T.L. Diehl, L.A. Remer, R. Kahn, A. Ignatov, L. Liu, M. Mishchenko, T.F. Eck, T.L. Kuscera, D. Giles, and O.V. Kopelevich, 2006: Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean: Comparison with satellite retrievals and GOCART model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14817, doi:10.1029/2006GL026051.

Zibordi, G., N. Strombeck, F. Melin, J.-F. Berthon, Tower-based radiometric observations at a coastal site in the Baltic Proper. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 69, 649-654. 2006

Zibordi, G., B. Holben, S. B. Hooker, F. Melin, J.-F. Berthon, I. Slutsker, D. Giles, D. Vandemark, H. Feng, K. Rutledge, G. Schuster, and A. Al Mandoos. A Network for Standardized Ocean Color Validation Measurements. EOS Transactions , 87, 30, pp. 293 and 297, 25 July 2006.

Zibordi, G., F. Melin, J.-F Berthon, Comparison of SeaWiFS, MODIS and MERIS radiometric products at a coastal site. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 33, 2006. doi:10.1029/2006GL025778.

Zibordi, G., F. Melin and J.F Berthon, A Time-Series of Above-Water Radiometric Measurements for Coastal Water Monitoring and Remote Sensing Product Validation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3, 120-124. 2006

Abdou, W.A., D.J. Diner, J.V. Martonchik, C.J. Bruegge, R.A. Kahn, B.J. Gaitley, K.A. Crean, L.A. Remer, and B. Holben, 2005, Comparison of coincident MISR and MODIS aerosol optical depths over land and ocean scenes containing AERONET sites, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JD004693.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, P. Goloub, H.B. Chen, B. Chatenet, L. Gomes, X.Y. Zhang, S.C. Tsay, Q. Ji, D. Giles, and I. Slutsker, Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid-Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 110 , D06202, doi:10.1029/2004JD005274, 2005.

Holben, B.N., and A.Smirnov, Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), WMO/GAW Rep. 162, p.26-30, edited by U.Baltensperger, L.Barrie, and C.Wehrli, WMO TD N1287, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005.

Hooker, S.B. & G. Zibordi, Platform perturbations in above-water radiometry. Appl. Opt., 44, 553-567. 2005

Ichoku, C., L.A. Remer, and T.F. Eck, 2005: Quantitative evaluation and intercomparison of morning and afternoon Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol measurements from Terra and Aqua, J Geophys Res-Atmos, 110,  D10S03, 10.1029/2004JD004987.

Kahn, R., B. Gaitley, J. Martonchik, D. Diner, K. Crean, and B. Holben, 2005, MISR global aerosol optical depth validation based on two years of coincident AERONET observations, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10:1029/2004JD004706.

Kahn, R., W-H. Li, J. Martonchik, C. Bruegge, D. Diner, B. Gaitley, W.Abdou, O. Dubovik, B. Holben, S. Smirnov, Z. Jin, and D. Clark, 2005. MISR low-light-level calibration, and implications for aerosol retrieval over dark water, J. Atmosph, Sci. 62, 1032-1062.

Kahn, R., W.-H.Li, J.V.Martonchik, C.J.Bruegge, D.J.Diner, B.J.Gaitley, W.Abdou, O.Dubovik, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, Z.Li, and D.Clark, MISR calibration and implications for low-light-level aerosol retrieval over dark water, J. Atm. Sci., 62, 1032-1052, doi: 10.1175/JAS3390.1, 2005.

Krotkov, N.A., P.K. Bhartia, J.R.Herman, J. Slusser, G. Scott, G. Labow, A. Vasilkov, T. F. Eck, O. Dubovik,  and B. N. Holben, 2005: Aerosol ultraviolet absorption experiment (2002-2004): 2. Absorption optical thickness, refractive index, and single scattering albedo, Optical Engineering, 44(4) 041005.

Krotkov, N.A., P.K. Bhartia and J.R.Herman, J. Slusser, G. Scott, G. Janson,  G. Labow, T. F. Eck, and B. N. Holben, 2005: Aerosol ultraviolet absorption experiment (2002-2004): 1. Ultraviolet multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer calibration and intercomparison with CIMEL sun photometers, Optical Engineering, 44(4) 041004.

Omar, A. H., J.-G. Won, D. M. Winker, S.-C. Yoon, O. Dubovik, and M. P. McCormick, 2005: Development of global aerosol models using cluster analysis of Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 110.

O'Neill, N.T., A. Smirnov, T.F.Eck, C.T.McElroy, L.J.B.McArthur, and B.N.Holben, Comment on the Paper "Determination of NO2 column mounts from AERONET data" by A.N. Rublev et al., Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Engl. Transl., 41, 117-119, 2005 (From Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 41, 131-133, 2005).

O'Neill, N.T., S. Thulasiraman, T.F. Eck, and J.S. Reid, 2005: Robust optical features of fine mode size distributions: Application to the Quebec smoke event of 2002, J. Geophys Res.- Atmos., 110 (D11), D11207, 10.1029/2004JD005157.

Perrone, M.R., M.Santese, A.M.Tafuro, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Aerosol load characterization over South-East Italy for one year of AERONET sun-photometer measurements, Atm. Res., 75, 111-133, 2005.

Reid, J.S., Piketh, S.J., Kahn, R., Bruintjes, R.T., and Holben, B.N., August 1, 2005: A Summary of First Year Activities of the United Arab Emirate Unified Aerosol Experiment: UAE2, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Monterey.

Reid JS, Eck TF, Christopher SA, Koppmann R, Dubovik O, Eleuterio DP, Holben BN, Reid EA,  and Zhang J., 2005: A review of biomass burning emissions part III: Intensive optical properties of biomass burning particles, Atmos Chem and Phy, 5: 827-849.

Reid, J.S., R. Koppmann, T.F. Eck, and D.P. Eleuterio, 2005: A review of biomass burning emissions, part II: Intensive physical properties of biomass burning particles, Atmos Chem and Phys, 5:  799-825.

Remer LA, Kaufman YJ, Tanre D, Mattoo S, Chu DA, Martins JV, Li RR, Ichoku C, Levy RC, Kleidman RG, Eck TF, Vermote E, and Holben BN, 2005: The MODIS aerosol algorithm, products, and validation, Journal of  the Atmospheric Sciences, 62 (4): 947-973.

Sakerin, S.M., D.M.Kabanov, M.V.Panchenko, V.V.Polkin, B.N.Holben, A.V.Smirnov, S.A.Beresnev, S.Yu.Gorda, G.I.Kornienko, S.V.Nikolashkin, V.A.Poddubnyi, M.A.Tashchilin, Monitoring of atmospheric aerosol in the Asian part of Russia in 2004 within the framework of AEROSIBNET program, Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics, English Translation, 18, 871-875, 2005.

Schuster, G.L., O. Dubovik, B.N. Holben, and E.E. Clothiaux: Inferring black carbon content and specific absorption from Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) aerosol retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10S17, doi:10.1029/2004JD004548, 2005.

Semenov,V.K., A.Smirnov, V.N.Aref'ev, V.P.Sinyakov, L.I.Sorokina, and N.I.Ignatova, Aerosol optical depth over the mountainous region in central Asia (Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan), Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05807, doi:10.1029/2004GL021746, 2005.

Uliumdzhieva, N., N.Chubarova, and A. Smirnov, Aerosol characteristics of the atmosphere over Moscow from Cimel sun photometer data, Meteorology and Hydrology, 1, 48-57, 2005.

Yamasoe, M.A., C. von Randow, A. Manzi, J. Schafer, T. Eck., and B. Holben, 2005: Effect of smoke on the tranmissivity of photosynthetically active radiation inside the canopy. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. , 5, 5909-5934.

Dubovik, O., "Optimization of Numerical Inversion in Photopolarimetric Remote Sensing", in Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing (G. Videen, Y. Yatskiv and M. Mish-chenko, Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 65-106, 2004.

G.Zibordi, F. Melin, S. B. Hooker, D. DAlimonte and B. Holben (2004): An autonomous above-water system for the validation of ocean color radiance data. IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42, 401-415.

Hooker, S.B., G.Zibordi, J.-F.Berthon and J.W.Brown, Above-Water Radiometry in shallow coastal waters. Applied Optics, 21,4254-4268. 2004

Kahn, R., J. Anderson, T.L. Anderson, T. Bates, F. Brechtel, C.M. Carrico, A. Clarke, S.J. Doherty, E. Dutton, R. Flagan, R. Frouin, H. Fukushima, B. Holben, S. Howell, B. Huebert, A. Jefferson, H. Jonsson, O. Kalashnikova, J. Kim, S-W. Kim, P. Kus, W-H. Li, J.M. Livingston, C. McNaughton, J. Merrill, S. Mukai, T. Murayama, T. Nakajima, P. Quinn, J. Redemann, M. Rood, P. Russell, I. Sano, B. Schmid, J. Seinfeld, N. Sugimoto, J. Wang, E.J. Welton, J-G. Won, S-C. Yoon, Environmental Snapshots From ACE-Asia, J. Geophys. Res., doi:2003jd004339, 2004.

Liu, L., M.I.Mishchenko, I.Geogdzhayev, A.Smirnov, S.M.Sakerin, D.M.Kabanov, and O.A.Ershov, Global validation of two-channel AVHRR aerosol optical thickness retrievals over the oceans, JQSRT, 88, 97-109, 2004.

Mallet, M., J.C. Roger, S. Despiau, J.P. Putaud and O. Dubovik, A method to study the mixing state of Black Carbon, J. Geophys. Res., 109, No. D4, D04202, 10.1029/2003JD003940, 2004.

Marshak, A., Y. Knyzaikhin, K. D. Evans, W. J. Wiscombe, 2004: The "RED versus NIR" Plane to Retrieve Broken-Cloud Optical Depth from Ground-Based Measurements, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, pp 1911-1925.

Martonchik, J.V., D.J. Diner, R.A. Kahn, B.J. Gaitley, and B.N. Holben, 2004, Comparison of MISR and AERONET aerosol optical depths over desert sites, Geophys. Res. Let.,31, doi:10.1029/2004GL019807.

Pires, C., P. Artaxo, B. Holben and J. Schafer. Seasonal aspects of atmospheric aerosol optical properties over South America from AERONET measurements. In: Third LBA Science Conference, 2004, Braslia, DF, Brasil, 2004.

Pires, C., P. Artaxo, B. Holben and, J. Schafer. Case studies of high aerosol optical thickness events and transport of biomass burning aerosol over South America from AERONET measurements. In: Third LBA Science Conference, 2004, Braslia, Brasil, 2004.

Procopio,A.S., P. Artaxo, Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, J. S. Schafer, B. N. Holben, 2004: Multiyear analysis of amazonian biomass burning smoke radiative forcing of climate, Geophys.Res.Lett., 31, L03108, doi:10.1029/2003GL018646.

Russell, P. B., J. M. Livingston, O. Dubovik, S. A. Ramirez, J. Wang, J. Redemann, B. Schmid, M. Box and B. N. Holben, Sunlight transmission through desert dust and marine aerosols: Diffuse light corrections to Sun photometry and pyrheliome-try, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D08207, doi:10.1029/2003JD004292, 2004.

Yu, H., R. E. Dickinson, M. Chin, Y. J. Kaufman, M. Zhou, L. Zhou, Y. Tian, O. Du-bovik and B. N. Holben, Direct radiative effect of aerosols as determined from a combination of MODIS retrievals and GOCART simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 109, No. D3, D03206, 10.1029/2003JD003914, 2004.

Zhao, T. X.-P., O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, B. N. Holben, J. Sapper, D. Tanré, C. Pietras, K. J. Voss and, R. Froin, Regional Evaluation of an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Two-Channel Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm, J. Geophys. Res., 109, No. D2, D02302, 10.1029/2003JD003817, 2004.

Bellouin, N., O. Boucher, D. Tanre´, and O. Dubovik, Aerosol absorption over the clear-sky oceans deduced from POLDER-1 and AERONET observations, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, No. 14, 1748 10.1029/2003GL017121, 23 July , 2003.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, T.Lapyonok, A.Sinyuk, D.Tanre, Ph.Goloub, and I.Slutsker, Retrieval of optical properties of desert dust aerosol from AERONET observations, 2nd Workshop on Mineral Dust, Paris, France, September 10-12, 2003.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, N.T. O'Neill, J.S. Schafer, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, M.A. Yamasoe, and P. Artaxo, High aerosol optical depth biomass burning events: A comparison of optical properties for different source regions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(20), 2035, doi:10.1029/2003GL017861, 2003.

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, D. E. Ward, M. M. Mukelabai, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, J. S. Schafer, N. C. Hsu, S. J. Piketh, A. Queface, J. Le Roux, R. J. Swap, and I. Slutsker, 2003: Variability of biomass burning aerosol optical characteristics in southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign and a comparison of single scattering albedo estimates from radiometric measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D13), 8477, doi:10.1029/2002JD002321, 2003.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, J.Boonjawat, H.V.Le, J.S.Schafer, J.S.Reid, O.Dubovik, and A.Smirnov, Aerosol optical properties in Southeast Asia from AERONET observations, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 8-12, 2003.

Haywood, J. M., P. Francis, O. Dubovik, M. Glew and B. N. Holben, Comparison of aerosol size distributions, radiative properties and optical depths determined by aircraft observations and sunphotometers during SAFARI-2000, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/2002JD002250, 2003.

Holben, B.N., T.F.Eck, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, P.Goloub, R.Singh, and R.T.Pinker, AERONET: New Aerosol products, data access, and reanalysis of field data for mixtures of fine and coarse mode aerosols, 2003 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 7-11, 2003.

Kahn, R., W.-H.Li, C.Bruegge, D.Diner, J.Martonchik, B.Gaitley, O.Dubovik, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Quantitative constraints on aerosol optical properties over dark water from MISR multi-angle imaging, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 8-12, 2003.

Kinne, S., U. Lohmann, J. Feichter, M. Schulz, C. Timmreck, S. Ghan, R. Easter, M. Chin, P. Ginoux, T. Takemura, I. Tegen, D. Koch, M. Herzog, J. Penner, G. Pitari, B. Holben, T. Eck, A. Smirnov, O. Dubovik, I. Slutsker, D. Tanre, O. Torres, M. Mishchenko, I. Geogdzhayev, D. A. Chu, and Y. Kaufman, Monthly averages of aerosol properties: A global comparison among models, satellite data, and AERONET ground data, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D20), 4634, doi:10.1029/2001JD001253, 2003.

Livingston, J.M., Ph.B.Russell, J.S.Reid, J.Redemann, B.Schmid, D.A.Allen, O.Torres, R.C.Levy, L.A.Remer, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, E.J.Welton, J.R.Campbell, J.Wang, and S.A.Christopher, Airborne sunphotometer measurements of aerosol optical depth and columnar water vapor during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment, and comparison with land, aircraft, and satellite measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D19), 8588, doi:10.1029/2002JD002520, 2003.

Mallet, M., J.C. Roger, S. Despiau, O. Dubovik, J.P. Putaud, Microphysical and op-tical properties of aerosol particles in urban zone during ESCOMPTE, Atm. Res., 69, 73-97, 2003.

Muller D., I. Mattis, U. Wandinger, A. Ansmann, D. Atthausen, O. Dubovik, E. Sa-bine and A. Stohl, Saharan dust over a central European EARLINET-AERONET site: combined observations with Raman lidar and sun-photometer, J. Geophys. Res.,108, D12, 4346,10.1029/2002JD003046, 2003.

O'Neill, N.T., T.F.Eck, , A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, and S.Thulasiraman, Spectral discrimination of coarse and fine mode optical deph, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D17), 4559, doi:10.1029/2002JD002975, 2003.

• Recent changes to the coarse/fine mode optical depth deconvolution algorithm, April 2008. (PDF)

O'Neill, N. T.,T. F., Eck, , A. Smirnov, B. N.Holben, S. Thulasiraman, 2003: Spectral discrimination of coarse and fine mode optical depth, 108, J. Geophys. Res., No. D17, 4559-4573, 10.1029/2002JD002975.

Panchenko, M.V., S.M.Sakerin, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, "AEROSIBNET" - Siberian system for aerosol monitoring as an important element of worldwide network "AERONET", World Climate Change Conference, Moscow, Russia, September 29 - October 3, 2003.

Reid, J.S. et al., Analysis of measurements of Saharan dust by airborne and ground-based remote sensing methods during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE), J.Geophys.Res. 2003 (accepted, paper 2002JD002493).

Reid, J.S., H.H.Jonsson, H.B.Maring, A.Smirnov, D.L.Savoie, S.S.Cliff, E.A.Reid, J.M.Livingston, M.M.Meier, O.Dubovik, and S.-C.Tsay, Comparison of size and morphological measurements of coarse mode dust particles from Africa, J.Geophys.Res. 2003 (accepted, paper 2002JD002485).

Sato, M., J. Hansen, D. Koch, A. Lacis, R. Ruedy, O. Dubovik, B. N. Holben, M. Chin, T. Novakov, Global Atmospheric Black Carbon Inferred from AERONET, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, N 11, 6319-6324, 2003.

Sinyuk, A., O. Torres, O. Dubovik, Combined use of satellite and surface observations to infer the imaginary part of refractive index of Saharan dust, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10.1029/2002GL016189, 2003.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, O.Dubovik, and I.Slutsker, Effect of wind speed on columnar aerosol optical properties at Midway Island, J.Geophys.Res., 108 (D24), 4802, doi:10.1029/2003JD003879, 2003.

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, O. Dubovik, R. Frouin, T. F. Eck, and I. Slutsker, 2003: Maritime component in aerosol optical models derived from Aerosol Robotic Network data, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D1), 4033, doi:10.1029/2002JD002701.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, J.S.Schafer, N.T.O'Neill, I.Slutsker, P.Goloub, and B.Chatenet, Aerosol Robotic Network: past, present and future, Workshop on Global aerosol measurements for climate studies- present and future, Paris, France, September 15-19, 2003.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Maritime aerosol optical model derived from Aerosol Robotic Network data, IGARSS 2003, Toulouse, France, July 21-25, 2003.

Vermeulen, A., C. Devaux, D. Tanre, B. Holben, P. Goloub, and L. Blarel: Retrieval of aerosol properties from AERONET polarization measurements EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Abstract EAE03-A-14384, 2003

Wang, J., S A. Christopher, F. Brechtel, J. Kim, B. Schmid, J. Redemann, P. B. Russell, Patricia Quinn and B. N. Holben, Geostationary Satellite Retrievals of Aerosol Optical Thickness during ACE-Asia,  J. Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. D23, 8657, 10.1029/2003JD003580, 30 August 2003.

Wang, Jun; Christopher, Sundar A.; Reid, Jeffrey S.; Maring, Hal; Savoie, Dennis; Holben, Brent N.; Livingston, John M.; Russell, Philip B.; Yang, Shi-Keng, GOES 8 retrieval of dust aerosol optical thickness over the Atlantic Ocean during PRIDE, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 108, No. D19, 8595, 10.1029/2002JD0024,2003.

Zhao, T. X.-P., I. Laszlo, O. Dubovik, B. N. Holben, J. Sapper, D. Tanré, and. C. Pietras, A study of the effect of non-spherical dust particles on the AVHRR aerosol optical thickness retrievals, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 6, 10.1029/ 2002GL016379, 26 March 2003.

Chin, M., Ginoux P., Kinne S., Torres O., Holben B.N., Duncan B.N., Martin R.V., Logan J.A., Higurashi A., Nakajima T (2002), Tropospheric aerosol optical thickness from the GOCART model and comparisons with satellite and Sun photometer measurements. J. Atmos. Sci.

Christopher, S. A., J. Zhang, B. N. Holben, and S-K. Yang: GOES-8 and NOAA-14 AVHRR Retrieval of Smoke Aerosol Optical Thickness during SCAR-B, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 23,(22), 4931-4944, 2002.

Dorofeev, F.V., D.M.Kabanov, M.V.Panchenko, S.M.Sakerin, A.V.Smirnov, S.A.Turchinovich, B.N.Holben, and N.N.Shchelkanov, AEROSIBNET: preliminary results and prospective, Symposium on Aerosols in Siberia, Tomsk, Russia, November 24-27, 2002.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben,T. Lapyonok, A.Sinyuk, M. I. Mishchenko, P. Yang, and I.Slutsker, 2002: Non-spherical aerosol retrieval method employing light scattering by spheriods,Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 54-1 54-4.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, Y.J.Kaufman, M.D.King, D.Tanre, and I.Slutsker, 2002: Variability of absorption and optical properties of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations, J.Atm.Sci., 59, 590-608 .

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, T.Lapyonok, A.Sinyuk, M.I.Mishchenko, P.Yang, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, C.Cattrall, and I.Slutsker, Non-spherical aerosol retrieval method emplying light scattering by spheroids and its application to AERONET data, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, M.A. Yamasoe, A.S. Procopio, E. Prins, J.M.Feltz, A.Smirnov, O. Dubovik, and J.S.Reid, Inter-annual variability of biomass burning aerosol optical depth in Southern Amazonia, and the impact of these aerosols on the diurnal cycle of solar flux reduction, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 6-10, 2002.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, M.A. Yamasoe, A.S. Procopio, E. Prins, O. Dubovik, and A. Smirnov, Inter-annual variability of biomass burning aerosol optical depth in southern Amazonia, and the effects of these aerosols on the diurnal cycle of solar flux reduction, LBA Science Team Meeting, Manaus, July 7-10, 2002.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, M.M.Mukelabai, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, J.S.Schafer, and I.Slutsker, Seasonal variability of aerosol single scattering albedo at biomass burning sites in Southern Africa and Amazonia, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Holben, B.N., T.F.Eck, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, I.Slutsker, P.Artaxo, A.Leyva, D.Lu, I.Sano, R.P.Singh, E.Quel, D.Tanre, and G.Zibordi, AERONET- Aerosol climatology from megalopolis aerosol source regions, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Holben, B.N., O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, A.Vermeulen, I.Slutsker, and Ph.Goloub, AERONET: Ground based aerosol characterization, Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 29-May 3, 2002.

Ichoku, C., R. Levy, Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, R. Li, V. J. Martins, B. N. Holben, N. Abuhassan, I. Slutsker, T. Eck, 2002: "Analysis of the performance characteristics of the five-channel Microtops II sun photometer for measuring Optical Thickness and Precipitable Water Vapor."

Kaufman, Y.J., O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Remote sensing of non-aerosol absorption in cloud free atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(18), 1857, doi:10.1029/2001GL014399, 2002.

Liu, H., R.T.Pinker, B.N.Holben, J.Ballabrera, T.F.Eck, and A.Smirnov, Climatology of aerosol optical depth over the United States, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Mukai, S.; Sano, I.; Hirata, T.; Holben, B.N., 2002: Global map of water vapor content from ADEOS/POLDER and NASA/AERONET. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International , 6, 3218 -3220.

O'Neill, N. T., Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Smirnov, A.A. Royer, Z. Li, 2002: Optical properties of Boreal Forest Fire Smoke Derived from Sunphotometry, J. Geophys. Res., 107,D11, 10.1029/2001JD000877.

O'Neill, N.T., S.Thulasiraman, A.Royer, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, B.J.McArthur, K.Strawbridge, and J. Freemantle, Development of a spectral cloud screening algorithm for sunphotometry, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Panchenko, M.V., S.A.Terpugova, V.S.Kozlov, V.N.Uzjegov, S.M.Sakerin, D.M.Kabanov, B.D.Belan, M.Yu.Arshinov, T.M.Rasskazchikova, P.P.Anikin, G.I.Gorchakov, A.A.Isakov, V.M.Kopeykin, M.A.Sviridenkov, E.G.Semutnikova, B.N.Holben, and A.V.Smirnov, Echo of the Moscow region fires in the atmosphere of West Siberia, Symposium on Aerosols in Siberia, Tomsk, Russia, November 24-27, 2002.

Remer, L.A., D.Tanre, Y.J.Kaufman, C.Ichoku, S.Mattoo, R.Levy, D.A.Chu, B.N. Holben, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, J.V.Martins, R.-R.Li, Z.Ahmad, Validation of MODIS aerosol retrieval over ocean, Geophys.Res.Lett., 29(12), 10.1029/2001GL013204, 2002.

Savoie, D.L., A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, J.S.Reid, H.B.Maring, E.J.Welton, and J.R.Campbell, Vertical distribution of Saharan dust over the tropical North atlantic from ground-based dust measurements and AERONET aerosol optical depths, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Schafer, J.S., Holben BN, Eck TF, et al. Atmospheric effects on insolation in the Brazilian Amazon: Observed modification of solar radiation by clouds and smoke and derived single scattering albedo of fire aerosols, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 107 (D20): art. no. 8074 SEP-OCT 2002.

Schafer, J.S., T.F. Eck, B.N. Holben, P. Artaxo, M.A. Yamasoe, A.S. Procopio: Observed Reductions of Total Solar Irradiance by Biomass-Burning Aerosols in the Brazilian Amazon and Zambian Savanna, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (17) 1823 SEP 2002.

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, B. Chatenet, and R. T. Pinker, 2002: Diurnal variability of aerosol optical depth observed at AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) sites, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 29 (23), 2115, doi:10.1029/2002GL016305.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, N.T.O'Neill, T.F.Eck, D.L.Westphal, A.K.Goroch, C.Pietras, and I.Slutsker, 2002: Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Properties in the Persian Gulf, J. Atm. Sci., 59, 620-634.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, Y.J.Kaufman, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, C.Pietras, and R.Halthore, 2002: Optical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol in Maritime Environments, J.Atm.Sci., 59, 501-523.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, P.Ginoux, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Diurnal variability of aerosol optical depth observed at AERONET (Aerosol robotic network) sites, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, L.Remer, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties during PRIDE, PRIDE Data Workshop, Miami, FL, February 12-14, 2002.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, R.Frouin, G.Fargion, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties at the SIMBIOS/AERONET sites, SIMBIOS Science Team Meeting, Baltimore, MD, January 15-17, 2002.

Takemura T; Nakajima T; Dubovik O; Holben BN; Kinne S., 2002: Single-scattering albedo and radiative forcing of various aerosol species with a global three-dimensional model. J.Climate, 15, No. 4,333-352.

Tanre, D., Y.J.Kaufman, B.N.Holben, B.Chatenet, P.Goloub, A.Karnieli, F.Lavenu, L.Blarel, O.Dubovik, L.Remer, and A.Smirnov, Climatology of dust aerosol size distribution and optical properties derived from remotely sensed data in the solar spectrum, AERONET Special session, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Torres O; Herman JR; Bhartia PK; Sinyuk A., 2002: Aerosol properties from EP-TOMS near UV observations. REMOTE SENSING OF TRACE CONSTITUENTS IN THE LOWER STRATOSPHERE, TROPOSPHERE AND THE EARTH'S SURFACE: GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS, AIR POLLUTION AND THE ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION 2002, 29, No. 11, 1771-1780.

Torres O; Bhartia PK; Herman JR; Sinyuk A; Ginoux P; Holben B., 2002: A long-term record of aerosol optical depth from TOMS observations and comparison to AERONET measurements. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, No. 3, 398-413.

Thulasiraman, S., N. T. O'Neil, A. Royer, B. N. Holben, D. Westphal, D., L. J. B. McArthur, 2002: "Sunphotometric observations of the 2001 Asian dust storm over Canada and the U.S."

Vermeulen, A., C. Devaux, D. Tanre, B. Holben, L. Blarel, and P. Goloub: Retrieval of aerosol properties from sky radiance and polarization ground-based measurements Eos. Trans. AGU, 83(19), Spring Meet. Suppl., Abstract A51B-17, 2002 AGU Spring Meeting, Washington DC, May 28-31, 2002.

Zhao, T.X.-P., L.L.Stowe, A,Smirnov, D.Crosby, J.Sapper, and C.R.McClain, 2002: Development of a global validation package for satellite oceanic aerosol retrieval based on AERONET sunphotometer observations and its application to NOAA/NESDIS operational aerosol retrievals, J.Atm.Sci. (accepted).

Chu, D. A., Y. J. Kaufman, C. Ichoku, L. A. Remer, D. Tanre, B. N. Holben, 2001: "Validation of MODIS aerosol optical depth retrieval over land."

Diner DJ; Abdou WA; Bruegge CJ; Conel JE; Crean KA; Gaitley BJ; Helmlinger MC; Kahn RA; Martonchik JV; Pilorz SH; Holben BN, 2001:. MISR aerosol optical depth retrievals over southern Africa during the SAFARI-2000 dry season campaign. Geophys. Res. Lett., AUG 15, 2001, 28, No. 16, 3127-3130.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, Y.J.Kaufman, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, M.D.King, D.Tanre, and I.Slutsker, Absorption of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations, Chapman Conference on atmospheric absorption and solar radiation, Estes Park, Colorado, August 13-17, 2001.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, I.Slutsker, J.M.Lobert, and V.Ramanathan, 2001: Column integrated aerosol optical properties over the Maldives during the northeast monsoon for 1998-2000, J.Geophys.Res., 106, 28 555-28 566.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, D.E. Ward, O. Dubovik, J.S. Reid, A. Smirnov, M.M. Mukelabai, N.C. Hsu, N.T. O'Neill, and I. Slutsker, 2001: Characterization of the optical properties of biomass burning aerosols in Zambia during the 1997 ZIBBEE field campaign, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 3425-3448.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, D.E.Ward, M.M.Mukelabai, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, J.S.Schafer, C.Hsu, S.J.Piketh, A.Queface, and I.Slutsker, Characterization of biomass burning aerosol optical properties during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign with AERONET observations, SAFARI Special session, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 10-15, 2001.

Ginoux, P., M. Chin, I. Tegen, J. M. Prospero, B. H. Holben, O. Dubovik, and S. Lin, 2001: Sources and distributions of dust aerosols simulated with the GOCART model, J.Geophys.Res., 106, D17, 20 255 - 20 273.

Holben, B.N., D.Tanre, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, N.Abuhassan, W.W.Newcomb, J.Schafer, B.Chatenet, F.Lavenue, Y.J.Kaufman, J.Vande Castle, A.Setzer, B.Markham, D.Clark, R.Frouin, R.Halthore, A.Karnieli, N.T.O'Neill, C.Pietras, R.T.Pinker, K.Voss, and G.Zibordi, 2001: An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 12 067-12 097. (PDF) | (TXT)

Holben, B.N., T.F.Eck, D.E.Ward, M.M.Mukelabai, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, J.S.Schafer, N.C.Hsu, S.J.Piketh, A.Queface, J.Le Roux, and I.Slutsker, Characterization of biomass burning aerosol optical properties during SAFARI 2000 with AERONET observations, SAFARI Special session, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 10-15, 2001.

Holben, B.N., A.Smirnov, T.Eck, O.Dubovik, and I.Slutsker, AERONET - a globally distributed ground-based aerosol optical properties measurement program, Symposium on Global Aerosol Climatology Database Preliminary Program, Portland, Oregon, October 13-14, 2001.

Husar, R. B., D. M. Tratt, B. A. Schichtel, S. R. Falke, F. Li, D. Jaffe, S. Gasso, T. Gill, N. S. Laulainen, F. Lu, M. C. Reheis, Y. Chun, D. Westphal, B. N. Holben, C. Gueymard, I. McKendry, N. Kuring, G. C. Feldman, C. McClain, R. J. Frouin, J. Merrill, D. DuBois, F. Vignola, T. Murayama, S. Nickovic, W. E. Wilson, K. Sassen, N. Sugimoto, and W. C. Malm, 2001: Asian dust events of April 1998, J.Geophys.Res., 106, D16, 18 317-18 330.

Ichoku, C., D. A. Chu, S. Mattoo, Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, D. Tanre, I. Slutsker, and B. N. Holben, 2001: "A Spatio-Temporal Approach for Global Validation and Analysis of MODIS Aerosol Products."

Ichoku, C.; Chu, D.A.; Mattoo, S.; Kaufman, Y.J.; Remer, L.A.; Tanre, D.; Slutsker, I.; Holben, B.N., 2001: Techniques of global validation of aerosol retrievals from MODIS. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2001, IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International , 3, 1203 -1205.

Kaufman, Y. J, D. Tanre, O. Dubovik, A. Karnieli, and L. A. Remer, 2001: Absorption of sunlight by dust as inferred from satellite and ground-based remote sensing, Geoph.Res.Lett., 28, 8, 1479-1482.

Kaufman, Y.J., A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, and O.Dubovik, 2001: Baseline maritime aerosol: methodology to derive the optical thickness and scattering properties, Geoph.Res.Lett., 28, 3251-3254.

Kaufman, Y.J., O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, L.A.Remer, and D.Tanre, Remote sensing of aerosol and non-aerosol absorption, Chapman Conference on atmospheric absorption and solar radiation, Estes Park, Colorado, August 13-17, 2001.

Kaufman, Y.J., A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, Background maritime aerosol: their optical thickness and scattering properties, 8th Scientific assembly of IAMAS, Innsbruck, Austria, July 10-18, 2001.

Kinne, S., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, I.Slutsker, U.Lohmann, S.Ghan, M.Chin, P.Ginoux, T.Takemura, R.Kahn, E.Vermote, D.Tanre, L.Stowe, O.Torres, and M.Mischenko, How well do aerosol retrievals from satellites and representation in global circulation models match ground-based AERONET aerosol statistics, in Remote Sensing and Climate Modelling: Synergies and Limitations, Advances in Global Change Research, 7, edited by M.Beniston and M.M.Verstraete, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 103-158, 2001.

Kinne, S., O.Dubovik, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, and I.Slutsker, Correlations among aerosol properties based on AERONET statistics, , Chapman Conference on atmospheric absorption and solar radiation, Estes Park, Colorado, August 13-17, 2001.

Kreidenweis SM; Remer LA; Bruintjes R; Dubovik O., 2001: Smoke aerosol from biomass burning in Mexico: Hygroscopic smoke optical model. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., MAR 16, 2001, 106, No. D5, 4831-4844.

O'Neill, N.T., T.F.Eck, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, and A.Royer, 2001: Bimodal size distribution influences on the variation of Angstrom derivatives in spectral and optical depth space, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 9787-9806.

O'Neill, N.T., O.Dubovik, O., and T.F.Eck, 2001: A modified Angstrom coefficient for the characterization of sub-micron aerosols, Appl. Opt., 40, 15, 2368-2375.

O'Neill, N. T., A. Royer, A.Smirnov, B.J.McArthur, K. Strawbridge, and J. Freemantle, Thin cloud effects in sun photometry, 8th Scientific assembly of IAMAS, Innsbruck, Austria, July 10-18, 2001.

Pinker, R. T., G. Pandithurai, B. N. Holben, O. Dubovik, and T. O. Aro, 2001: A dust outbreak episode in sub-Sahel West Africa, J.Geophys.Res., 106, D19, 22 923 - 22 930.

Reid, J.S., H.H.Jonsson, M.H.Smith, and A.Smirnov, 2001: Evolution of the vertical profile and flux of large sea-salt particles in a coastal zone, J.Geophys.Res., 106, 12 039-12 054.

Reid, J.S., D.L.Westphal, P.A.Pilewskie, J.M.Livingston, H.P.Maring, A.Smirnov, S.S. Cliff, and M.R.Dunlap, The vertical distribution and microphysical properties of African dust transported into the Caribbean during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE), 8th Scientific assembly of IAMAS, Innsbruck, Austria, July 10-18, 2001.

Ristori, P., J. Fochesatto, P. H. Flamant, E. Wolfram, E. Quel, R. Piacentini, B. Holben, 2001: "Characterization of the Atmospheric Aerosols in the Buenos Aires area using long term Sun Photometer Measurements."

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, R.Frouin, G.Fargion, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Maritime aerosol optical model based on the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) measurements, AGU Fall Meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 10-15, 2001.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, Y.J.Kaufman, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, C.Pietras, and R.Halthore, Optical properties of atmospheric aerosol in maritime environments, 8th Scientific assembly of IAMAS, Innsbruck, Austria, July 10-18, 2001.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties at the SIMBIOS/AERONET sites, SIMBIOS Science Team Meeting, Greenbelt, MD, January 29-31, 2001.

Tanre, D., Y.J.Kaufman, B.N.Holben, B.Chatenet, A.Karnieli, F.Lavenu, L.Blarel, O.Dubovik, L.A.Remer, and A.Smirnov, 2001: Climatology of dust aerosol size distribution and optical properties derived from remotely sensed data in the solar spectrum, J.Geophys.Res., 106, 18 205-18 218.

Vermeulen, A., C. Devaux, D. Tanre, M.Herman, B.Holben, C. Pietras, L.Blarel, B.Chatenet: AERONET polarization measurements Eos. Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A41B-0024, 2001

Christopher, S.A., X.Li, R.M.Welsh, J.S.Reid, P.V.Hobbs, T.F.Eck, and B.N. Holben, 2000: Estimation of surface and top-of-atmosphere shortwave irradiance in biomass burning regions during SCAR-B, accepted to J.Appl.Meteor.

Dubovik, O. and M. D. King, 2000: A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements," J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20 673-20 696.

Dubovik, O., A. Smirnov, B. N. Holben, M. D. King, Y.J. Kaufman, T. F. Eck, and I. Slutsker, 2000: Accuracy assessments of aerosol optical properties retrieved from AERONET sun and sky-radiance measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 9791-9806.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, Y.J.Kaufman, M.d.King, D.Tanre, and I.Slutsker, Absorption and other optical properties of tropospheric aerosols retrived from the measurements of ground-based AERONET radiometers, International Radiation Symposium IRS2000, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 24-29, 2000.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, M.M.Mukelabai, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, D.E.Ward, and I.Slutsker, Seasonal and inter-annual variability of aerosol loading and optical properties at Mongu, Zambia, SAFARI 2000 Workshop.

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, D.E.Ward, M.M.Mukelabai, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, C.Hsu, S.J.Piketh, A.Queface, and I.Slutsker, Characterization of biomass burning aerosol optical properties during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign with AERONET observations, SAFARI 2000 Workshop.

Elias T; Devaux C; Goloub P; Herman M., 2000: Polarising properties of the aerosols in the north-eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, with emphasis on the ACE-2 period. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, APR 2000, 52, No. 2, 620-635.

Ferrare, R., S.Ismail, E.Browell, V.Brackett, M.Clayton, S.Kooi, S.H.Melfi, D.Whiteman, G.Schwemmer, K.Evans, P.Russell, J.Livingston, B.Schmid, B.Holben, L.Remer, A.Smirnov, and P.Hobbs, 2000: Comparison of aerosol optical properties and water vapor among ground and airborne lidars and sun photometers during TARFOX, J.Geophys.Res., 105, 9917-9934.

Goroch, A.K., A.Smirnov, and B.N.Holben, Comparison of nephelometer and solar photometer aerosol characterization during EOPACE-Duck, Conference on Visibility, Aerosols and Atmospheric Optics, Vienna, Austria, September 11-15, 2000.

Higurashi, A., T.Nakajima, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, R.Frouin, and B.Chatenet, 2000: A study of global aerosol optical climatology with two channel AVHRR remote sensing, J. Clim., 13, 2011-2027.

Holben, B.N., D.E.Ward, R.A.Susott, T.F.Eck et al., 2000: Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol size distribution retrievals with airborne vertical profile measurements of aerosol mass concentration in Zambia (in preparation).

Holben, B.N., O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, Y.J.Kaufman, and D.Tanre, Climatology of aerosol optical properties from AERONET - inversion parameters, International Radiation Symposium IRS2000, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 24-29, 2000.

Kaufman, Y.J., B.N.Holben, D.Tanré, I.Slutzker, T.F.Eck, and A.Smirnov, 2000: Will aerosol measurements from Terra and Aqua polar orbiting satellites represent the daily aerosol abundance and properties, Geoph.Res.Lett., 23, 3861-3864.

Kaufman, Y.J., D.Tanre, B.N.Holben, S.Mattoo, L.A.Remer, T.F.Eck, J.Vaughan, and B.Chatenet, 2000: Aerosol radiative impact on spectral solar flux at the surface, derived form principal plane sky measurements, submitted to J. Geophys. Res..

Kaufman, J.Y., D.Tanre, O.Dubovik, A.Karnieli, and L.A.Remer, 2000: Satellite and ground based radiometers reveal much lower dust absorption of sunlight than used in climate models, submitted to Science.

Kinne, S.A., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, I.Slutsker, D.Tanre, O.Torres, Aerosol radiative forcing based on the AERONET statistics, Conference on Visibility, Aerosols and Atmospheric Optics, Vienna, Austria, September 11-15, 2000.

Kinne, S., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, I.Slutsker, D.Tanre, and O.Torres, Aerosol radiative forcing based on AERONET statistics, International Radiation Symposium IRS2000, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 24-29, 2000.

Li, X., S. A. Christopher, J. Zhang, J. Chou, K-S Kuo, R. M. Welch, J. S. Reid, T. F. Eck, S-K Yang, and B. N. Holben, 2000: Single scattering albedo of smoke aerosols estimated from NOAA-14 AVHRR measurements, submitted to J.Geophys.Res..

O'Neill, N.T., A.Ignatov, B.N.Holben, and T.F.Eck, 2000: The lognormal distribution as a reference for reporting aerosol optical depth statistics; Empirical tests using multi-year, multi-site AERONET sunphotometer data, J. Geophys. Lett., 27, 20, 3333-3336.

O'Neill, N.T., B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, A.Royer, and Z.Li, Optical properties of western Canadian forest fire smoke derived from the AERONET and AEROCAN sunphotometry networks, International Radiation Symposium IRS2000, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 24-29, 2000.

Ramanathan, V., P.J. Crutzen, J. Anderson, M.O. Andreae, G. Cass, A. Clarke, W.D. Collins, J. Coakley, B. Gandrud, B. Holben, J. Heintzenberg, A. Heysmfield, A. Jayaraman, J. Kiehl, T.N. Krishnamurti, A.P. Mitra, T. Novakov, J. Ogren, I. Podgorny, J. Prospero, K. Priestley, P. Quinn, S. Rupert, R. Sadourny, S.K. Satheesh, G. Shaw, P. Sheridan, F.P.J. Valero, 2000: Climate effects of the great SW-Asian haze: integrated observations from the INDian Ocean Experiment, in preparation.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, D.Savoie, J.M.Prospero, Y.J.Kaufman, D.Tanre, T.F.Eck, and I.Slutsker, 2000: Relationship between column aerosol optical thickness and in situ ground based dust concentrations over Barbados, Geoph. Res. Lett., 27, 1643-1646.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, N.T.O'Neill, L.A.Remer, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, and D.Savoie, 2000: Measurement of atmospheric optical parameters on US Atlantic coast sites, ships and Bermuda during TARFOX, J.Geophys.Res., 105, 9887-9901.

Smirnov A., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, O.Dubovik, and I.Slutsker, 2000: Cloud screening and quality control algorithms for the AERONET database, Rem.Sens.Env., 73, 337-349.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, L.A.Remer, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, R.Kleidman, D.Tanre, O.Torres, and I.Slutsker, Saharan dust aerosol optical properties over Puerto Rico based on the AERONET measurements during PRIDE, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19, 2000.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, C.R.McClain, and A.Leyva, Optical properties of various aerosol types observed ar Aerosol Robotic Network sites, International Radiation Symposium IRS2000, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 24-29, 2000.

Vermeulen, A., C.Devaux, and M.Herman, 2000: Retrieval of the scattering and microphysical properties of aerosols from ground based optical measurements including polarization. 1: Method, Appl.Opt., 39, 33, 6207-6220.

Welton, E.J., K.J.Voss, H.R.Gordon, H.Maring, A.Smirnov, B.N.Holben, B.Schmid, J.M.Livingston, P.B.Russell, P.A.Durkee, P.Formenti, and M.O.Andreae, 2000: Ground-based lidar measurements of aerosols during ACE-2: instrument description, results, and comparisons with other ground-based and airborne measurements, Tellus, 52(2), 635-650.

Zhang, J., S.A.Christopher, and B.N.Holben, 2000: Intercomparison of smoke aerosol optical thickness derived from GOES-8 imager and ground-based sun photometers, submitted to J. Geophys. Res..

Bokoye, A., A.Royer, N.T.O'Neill, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, P.M.Teillet, G.Fedosejevs, and R.Hoff, Sunphotometer network for the validation of long term climatic models in Canada, 33rd annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, May 31-June 4, 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Brooks, D.R., F.M.Mims III, G.Strachan, S.Kim, J.Yeung, B.N.Holben, and A.Smirnov, Calibrating the GLOBE sun photometer, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, MA, May 31-June 4, 1999.

Dubovik, O., B.N.Holben, M.D.King, Y.J.Kaufman, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck and I.Slutsker, The retrieval of aerosol optical properties from AERONET Sun and sky-radiance measurements, The CCSR COE Symposium/3rd Aerosol-Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 1-3, 1999.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, J.S.Reid, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, N.T.O'Neill, I.Slutsker, and S.Kinne, 1999: Wavelength dependence of the optical depth of biomass burning, urban and desert dust aerosols, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 31 333-31 350.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, J.S.Reid, and I.Slutsker, AERONET remote sensing retrievals of aerosol optical properties for accumulation mode dominated aerosol types, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 12-17, 1999.

Formenti, P., T. Elias, J. Welton, J.P. Diaz, F. Exposito, B. Schmid, D. Powell, B.N. Holben, A.Smirnov, M.O.Andreae, C. Devaux, K. Voss, J. Lelieveld, J.M. Livingston, P.B. Russell, and P.A. Durkee. Altitude differentiated aerosol extinction over Tenerife (North Atlantic Ocean) during ACE-2 by means of ground and airborne photometry and lidar measurments, European Aerosol Conference, September 6-10, 1999, Prague, Czech Republic.

Goloub P; Tanre D; Deuze JL; Herman M; Marchand A; Breon FM., 1999: Validation of the first algorithm applied for deriving the aerosol properties over the ocean using the POLDER ADEOS measurements. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. MAY 1999, 37, No. 3, 1586-1596

Holben, B.N., O.Dubovik, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, N.Abuhassan, I.Slutsker, W.Newcomb, D.Tanre, Y.Kaufman, N.T.O'Neill, M.King and T.Nakajima, Aerosol optical properties climatology at selected globally distributed sites from AERONET, The CCSR COE Symposium/3rd Aerosol-Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 1-3, 1999.

Holben, B.N., D.Tanre, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, O.Dubovik, N.Abuhassan, Optical properties of aerosols from long term ground-based measurements from AERONET, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

Hsu, N.C., J.R.Herman, O.Torres, B.N.Holben, D.Tanre, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, B.Chatenet, and F.Lavenu, 1999: Comparisons of the TOMS aerosol index with sunphotometer aerosol optical thickness: results and applications, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 6269-6280.

O'Neill, N.T., A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, A.Royer, A.Bokoye, Z.Li, and J.Freemantle, Ground based optical sensing of western Canadian forest fire smoke near Toronto, 33rd annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, May 31-June 4, 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

O'Neill, N.T., B.N.Holben, M.Aube, A.Royer, J.-P.Blanchet, and L.Spacek, Comparisons between the the Northern Aerosol Regional Climatological Model (NARCM) and spatio-temporal measurements of passive aerosol optical parameters, 33rd annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, May 31-June 4, 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

O'Neill, N.T., B.N.Holben, E.Vermote, A.Smirnov, A.Royer, M.Aube, J.-P. Blanchet, and L.Spacek, Comparisons between the aerosol transport simulations of an RCM and spatio-temporal measurements of aerosol optical parameters, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

O'Neill, N.T., B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, A.Royer, A.Bokoye, P.Teillet, G.Fedosejevs, Canadian sun photometry network for aerosol characterization, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

Reid, J.S., T.F. Eck, S.A. Christoper, P.V. Hobbs, and B.N. Holben, 1999: Use of the Angstrom Exponent to Estimate the Variability of Optical and Physical Properties of Aging Smoke Particles in Brazil, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 27 473-27 489

Remer, L.A., Y.J.Kaufman, and B.N.Holben, 1999: Interannual variation of ambient aerosol characteristics on the east coast of the United States, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 2223-2231.

Romanov, P., N.T.O'Neill, A.Royer, B.McArthur, 1999: Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol refractive index and particle size distribution from ground based measurements of direct and scattered radiation, Appl.Opt., 38, 7305-7320.

Satheesh, S.K., V.Ramanathan, Xu Li-Jones, J.M.Lobert, I.A.Podgorny, J.M.Prospero, B.N.Holben, and N.G.Loeb, 1999: A model for the natural and anthropogenic aerosols over the tropical Indian Ocean dervied from Indian Ocean Experiment data, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 27 421-27 440.

Schmid, B., J.Michalsky, R. Halthore, M. Beauharnois, L. Harrison, J. Livingston, P. Russell, B. Holben, T. Eck, and A. Smirnov, 1999: Comparison of aerosol optical depth from four solar radiometers during the fall 1997 ARM intensive observation period, Geophys.Res.Lett., 26, 2725-2728.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, and N.Abuhassan, Mineral dust optical properties on the AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) sites, IGARSS99, Hamburg, Germany, June 26-July 3, 1999.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, D.Tanre, O.Dubovik, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, R.Frouin, R.Pinker, A.Karnieli, AERONET: dust optical depth measurements, Workshop on mineral dust, Boulder, Colorado, June 9-11, 1999.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, D.Tanre, N.T.O'Neill, T.F.Eck, O.Dubovik, I.Slutsker, and N.Abuhassan, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties measured through the federated Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), keynote speaker at AEROCAN Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, March 17, 1999.

Tanre, D., L.R.Remer, Y.J.Kaufman, S.Mattoo, P.V.Hobbs, J.M.Livingston, P.B.Russell, and A.Smirnov, 1999: Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and size distribution over ocean from the MODIS airborne simulator during TARFOX, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 2261-2278.

Tanre, D., Y.J.Kaufman, L.A.Remer, B.Chatenet, A.Karnieli, F.Lavenu, O.Dubovik, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, S.Mattoo, Dust aerosol size distribution and optical properties derived from remotely sensed data in the solar spectrum, The CCSR COE Symposium/3rd Aerosol-Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 1-3, 1999.

Tanre D., L.R.Remer, Y.Kaufman, A.Smirnov, S.Mattoo, P.V.Hobbs, J.M.Livingston, and P.B.Russell, Validation of the aerosol properties derived from the MODIS measurements during theTARFOX experiment, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

Tarasova, T.A., C.A. Nobre, B.N. Holben, T.F. Eck, and A. Setzer, 1999: Assessment of smoke aerosol impact on surface solar irradiance measured in the Rondonia region of Brazil during Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation - Brazil, J.Geophys.Res., 104, 19 161-19 170.

Vermeulen, A., E. Vermote, J. Descloitres, I. Mao-che and B. Holben, Mapping monthly estimation of aerosol optical thickness from sun-photometer and satellite measurements, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

Vermeulen, A., C. Devaux, and M. Herman, Retrieval of the phase function and the polarized phase function of aerosols from ground-based measurements, International Symposium Ocean color, Land surfaces, radiation and clouds, Aerosols: the contribution of POLDER and new generation spaceborne sensors to global climate studies, Meribel, France, January 18-22, 1999.

Vermote, Eric and Anne Vermeulen, April 1999: MODIS atmospheric correction algorithm: spectral reflectances. Algorithm Technical Background Document, Version 4.0, 107pp, available at the URL http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/modistables.html.

Chu, A., Y.J.Kaufman, L.Remer and B.N.Holben, 1998: Remote sensing of smoke from MODIS airborne simulator during the SCAR-B experiment, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 31 979-31 987.

Deering, D.W., T.F. Eck, and B. Banerjee, 1998: Characterization of the reflectance anisotropy of three boreal forest canopies in spring-summer, Rem. Sens. Environ., 67, 205-229.

Devaux, C., A.Vermeulen, J.L.Deuze, P.Dubuisson, MHerman, R.Santer and M. Verbrugghe, 1998: Retrieval of aerosol single-scattering albedo from ground-based measurements: Application to observational data, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 8753-8761.

Dubovik, O., B.N. Holben, Y. J. Kaufman, M. Yamasoe, A. Smirnov, D. Tanre, I. Slutsker, 1998: Single-scattering albedo of smoke retrieved from the sky radiance and solar transmittance measured from ground, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31 903- 31 924.

Dubovik, O. V, T. Yokota and Y .Sasano, 1998: Improved technique for data inversion and its application to the retrieval algorithm for ADEOS/ILAS, Advances in Space Research, 21, N3, 397-403.

Echalar, F.E., P. Artaxo, J.V.Martins, M.Yamasoe, F.Gerab, W.Maenhaut, and B.N. Holben, 1998: Long-term monitoring of atmospheric aerosols in the Amazon Basin: Source identification and apportionment, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 31 849-31 864.

Eck, T.F., B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, and A. Setzer, 1998: Measurements of irradiance attenuation and estimation of aerosol single scattering albedo for biomass burning aerosols in Amazonia, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31 865-31 878.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, O.Dubovik, and I.Slutsker, Interannual and regional variations of biomass burning aerosol optical properties in Amazonia and South-Central Africa, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 8-12, 1998.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, and I.Slutsker, Estimation of aerosol single scattering albedo from irradiance and aerosol optical properties measurements for biomass burning smoke and urban haze, Fifth Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 19-25, 1998.

Holben B.N., T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, D.Tanre, J.P.Buis, A.Setzer, E.Vermote, J.A.Reagan, Y.Kaufman, T.Nakajima, F.Lavenu, I.Jankowiak, and A.Smirnov, 1998: AERONET - A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization, Rem. Sens. Environ., 66, 1-16.

Holben, B.N., D.Tanre, A.Smirnov, T.Eck, I.Slutsker, A.Setzer, B.Markham, J.Van de Castle, D.Ward, Y.Kaufman, T.Nakajima, and N.T.O'Neill, Aerosol climatology measured from the globally distributed ground-based AERONET system, Fifth Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 19-25, 1998.

Holben, B.N., D.Ward, T.F.Eck, M.Mukelobai, I.Slutsker, A.Smirnov, and O.Dubovik, Interannual variability of biomass burning aerosol optical properties measured in Zambian source regions, Fifth Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 19-25, 1998.

Holben, B.N., A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, and N.Abuhassan, Instrumental problems in sunphotometry, Sunphotometer Workshop, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, New York, USA, August 10-11, 1998.

Holben, B.N., D.Tanre, Y.Kaufman, A.Smirnov, T.Eck I.Slutsker, O.Dubovik, B.Markham, and N.Abuhassan, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties measured through the NASA Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), International Aerosol Symposium, St.Petersburg, Russia, July 6-9, 1998.

Kaufman, Y. J., P.V. Hobbs, V.W.J.H.Kirchhoff, P.Artaxo, L.A.Remer, B.N.Holben, M.D.King, E.M.Prins, D.E.Ward, K.M.Longo, L.F.Mattos, C.A.Nobre, J. D. Spinhirne, Q.Ji, A.M.Thompson, J. F.Gleason, S.A.Christopher, 1998: Smoke, clouds and radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B) experiment, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 31 783-31 808.

Plana-Fattori, A., M. Legrand, C.Devaux, D.Tanre, A.Vermeulen and P.Dubuisson, 1998: Estimating the atmospheric water vapor content from sun-photometric measurements, J.Appl.Meteorol., 37, 790-804.

Reid, J.S., P.V. Hobbs, C. Liousse, J.V.Martins, R.E. Weiss, and T.F. Eck, 1998: Comparisons of techniques for measuring shortwave absorption and the black carbon content of biomass-burning aerosols, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 32 031-32 040.

Remer, L.A., Y.J.Kaufman, B.N.Holben, A.M.Thompson and D.McNamara, 1998: Biomass burning aerosol size distribution and modeled optical properties, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 31 879-31 891.

Ross, J.L., P.V.Hobbs and B.N.Holben, 1998: Radiative characteristics of regional hazes dominated by smoke from biomass burning in Brazil: Closure tests and direct radiative forcing, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 31 925-31 941.

Smirnov, A., B.N.Holben, I.Slutsker, E.J.Welton, and P.Formenti, 1998: Optical properties of Saharan dust during ACE-2, J.Geophys.Res., 103, 28 079-28 092.

Yamasoe, M.A., Y.J.Kaufman, O.Dubovik, L.A.Remer, B.N.Holben and P.Artaxo, 1998: Retrieval of the real part of the refractive index of aerosols from sun/sky radiometers during SCAR-B, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31 893-31 902.

Yamasoe, M.A., Y.Kaufman, P.Artaxo, L.Remer, O.Dubovik, and B.N.Holben^, Determination of the real part of the index of refraction for aerosol particles at the SCAR-B and TARFOX experiments, Fifth Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 19-25, 1998.

Yokota, T., M. Suzuki, O.Dubovik and Y.Sasano, 1998: ILAS (Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer)/ADEOS data retrieval algorithms, Advances in Space Research, 21, 393-396.

Dickerson, R.R., S.Kondragunta, G.Stenchikov, K.L.Civerolo, B.G.Doddridge, and B.N.Holben, 1997: The impact of aerosols on solar ultraviolet radiation and photochemical smog, Science, 278 (5339), 827-830.

Dubovik, O. V., T. Nakajima, T. Yokota and Y. Sasano, Development of global inversion algorithm for ADEOS/ILAS spectrometer, in Proceedings of IRS’96: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (Hampton, Virginia, USA, A. Deepak Publishing, 1997) pp.541-544.

Eck, T.F., B.N.Holben, I.Slutsker, 1997: Measurements of irradiance attenuation and calculation of aerosol single scattering albedo for biomass burning aerosols during SCAR-B, SCAR-B Proceedings, Ed. by V. Kirchhoff, 45-48.

Eck, T.F., B. N.Holben, I.Slutsker, Measurements of irradiance attenuation and calculation of aerosol single scattering albedo for biomass burning aerosols during SCAR-B, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 17-30, 1997.

Halthore, R.N., S.E.Schwartz, J.J.Michalsky, G.P.Anderson, R.A.Ferrare, B.N.Holben and H.M.Ten Brink, 1997: Comparison of model estimated and measured direct-normal solar irradiance, J.Geophys.Res., 102, 21 991-21 302.

Halthore, R. N., T.F.Eck, B.N.Holben and B.L.Markham, 1997: Sunphotometric measurements of atmospheric water vapor column abundance in the 940-nm band, J.Geophys.Res., 102, 4343-4352.

Kaufman, Y.J., D.Tanre, L.Remer, E.Vermote, A.Chu, and B.N.Holben, 1997: Remote sensing of tropospheric aerosol from EOS-MODIS over the land using dark targets and dynamic aerosol models, J.Geophys.Res., 102, 17 051-17 067.

Markham, B.L., J.S.Schafer, B.N. Holben, and R.N. Halthore, 1997: Atmospheric aerosol and water vapor characteristics over north central Canada during BOREAS, J.Geophys.Res., 102, 29 737-29 745.

Miller, J.R. and N. T.O'Neill, 1997: Multi-altitude airborne observations of the insolation effects of forest smoke aerosols at BOREAS: Estimates of aerosol optical parameters, J.Geophys.Res., 102, 29 729-29 736.

Mims, F.M., B.N.Holben, T.F.Eck, B.C.Montgomery, and W.B.Grant, 1997: Smoky skies, mosquitoes, and disease, Science, 276 (5320), 1774-1775.

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