Yuekui Yang
Goddard Space Flight Center
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Geophysical Research Letters | 2015
Hongbin Yu; Mian Chin; Tianle Yuan; Huisheng Bian; Lorraine A. Remer; Joseph M. Prospero; Ali H. Omar; David M. Winker; Yuekui Yang; Yan Zhang; Zhibo Zhang; Chun Zhao
The productivity of the Amazon rainforest is constrained by the availability of nutrients, in particular phosphorus (P). Deposition of long-range transported African dust is recognized as a potentially important but poorly quantified source of phosphorus. This study provides a first multiyear satellite-based estimate of dust deposition into the Amazon Basin using three-dimensional (3-D) aerosol measurements over 2007–2013 from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). The 7 year average of dust deposition into the Amazon Basin is estimated to be 28 (8–48) Tg a−1 or 29 (8–50) kg ha−1 a−1. The dust deposition shows significant interannual variation that is negatively correlated with the prior-year rainfall in the Sahel. The CALIOP-based multiyear mean estimate of dust deposition matches better with estimates from in situ measurements and model simulations than a previous satellite-based estimate does. The closer agreement benefits from a more realistic geographic definition of the Amazon Basin and inclusion of meridional dust transport calculation in addition to the 3-D nature of CALIOP aerosol measurements. The imported dust could provide about 0.022 (0.006–0.037) Tg P of phosphorus per year, equivalent to 23 (7–39) g P ha−1 a−1 to fertilize the Amazon rainforest. This out-of-basin phosphorus input is comparable to the hydrological loss of phosphorus from the basin, suggesting an important role of African dust in preventing phosphorus depletion on timescales of decades to centuries.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2018
Alexander Marshak; Jay R. Herman; A. Szabo; Karin Blank; Simon A. Carn; Alexander Cede; Igor V. Geogdzhayev; Dong Huang; L. K. Huang; Yuri Knyazikhin; Matthew G. Kowalewski; Nickolay A. Krotkov; Alexei Lyapustin; Richard D. McPeters; Kerry Meyer; Omar Torres; Yuekui Yang
The NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was launched on February 11, 2015, and in June 2015 achieved its orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun. There are two NASA Earth observing instruments onboard: the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR). The purpose of this paper is to describe various capabilities of the DSCOVR/EPIC instrument. EPIC views the entire sunlit Earth from sunrise to sunset at the backscattering direction (scattering angles between 168.5° and 175.5°) with 10 narrowband filters: 317, 325, 340, 388, 443, 552, 680, 688, 764 and 779 nm. We discuss a number of pre-processingsteps necessary for EPIC calibration including the geolocation algorithm and the radiometric calibration for each wavelength channel in terms of EPIC counts/second for conversion to reflectance units. The principal EPIC products are total ozone O3amount, scene reflectivity, erythemal irradiance, UV aerosol properties, sulfur dioxide SO2 for volcanic eruptions, surface spectral reflectance, vegetation properties, and cloud products including cloud height. Finally, we describe the observation of horizontally oriented ice crystals in clouds and the unexpected use of the O2 B-band absorption for vegetation properties.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer | 2017
Yuekui Yang; Alexander Marshak; Mei Han; Stephen P. Palm; David J. Harding
Snow grain size is an important parameter for cryosphere studies. As a proof of concept, this paper presents an approach to retrieve this parameter over Greenland, East and West Antarctica ice sheets from surface reflectances observed with the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) onboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) at 1064 nm. Spaceborne lidar observations overcome many of the disadvantages in passive remote sensing, including difficulties in cloud screening and low sun angle limitations; hence tend to provide more accurate and stable retrievals. Results from the GLAS L2A campaign, which began on 25 September and lasted until 19 November, 2003, show that the mode of the grain size distribution over Greenland is the largest (~300 μm) among the three, West Antarctica is the second (~220 μm) and East Antarctica is the smallest (~190 μm). Snow grain sizes are larger over the coastal regions compared to inland the ice sheets. These results are consistent with previous studies. Applying the broadband snow surface albedo parameterization scheme developed by Garder and Sharp (2010) to the retrieved snow grain size, ice sheet surface albedo is also derived. In the future, more accurate retrievals can be achieved with multiple wavelengths lidar observations.
Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation V | 2014
Yuekui Yang; Stephen P. Palm; Alexander Marshak
Blowing snow plays an important role in the studies of the Earth’s cryosphere. Not only can it affects the ice sheet mass balance and hydrological processes through redistributing surface mass and driving spatial and temporal variations in snow accumulation, it also has a significant impact on the long wave radiation budget both at the surface and at the top of the atmosphere. In this article, we show that blowing snow has substantial impact on the Antarctic Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR). Significant cloud-free OLR differences are observed between the clear and blowing snow sky, with the sign and magnitude depending on season and time of the day.
Remote Sensing of Environment | 2015
Hongbin Yu; Mian Chin; Huisheng Bian; Tianle Yuan; Joseph M. Prospero; Ali H. Omar; Lorraine A. Remer; David M. Winker; Yuekui Yang; Yan Zhang; Zhibo Zhang
Remote Sensing of Environment | 2012
Hongbin Yu; Yan Zhang; Mian Chin; Zhaoyan Liu; Ali H. Omar; Lorraine A. Remer; Yuekui Yang; Tianle Yuan; Jianglong Zhang
Remote Sensing of Environment | 2017
Thorsten Markus; Tom Neumann; Anthony J. Martino; Waleed Abdalati; Kelly M. Brunt; Beata Csatho; Sinead L. Farrell; Helen Amanda Fricker; Alex S. Gardner; David J. Harding; Michael F. Jasinski; R. Kwok; Lori A. Magruder; Dan Lubin; Scott B. Luthcke; James H. Morison; Ross Nelson; Amy L. Neuenschwander; Stephen P. Palm; Sorin C. Popescu; C. K. Shum; B. E. Schutz; Benjamin E. Smith; Yuekui Yang; Jay Zwally
Archive | 2015
Hongbin Yu; Mian Chin; Tianle Yuan; Huisheng Bian; Lorraine A. Remer; Joseph M. Prospero; Ali H. Omar; David M. Winker; Yuekui Yang; Yan Zhang; Zhibo Zhang; Chun Zhao
The Cryosphere | 2017
Stephen P. Palm; Vinay Kayetha; Yuekui Yang; Rebecca Pauly
Geophysical Research Letters | 2017
Xiaoguang Xu; Jun Wang; Yi Wang; Jing Zeng; Omar Torres; Yuekui Yang; Alexander Marshak; Jeffrey S. Reid; Steve Miller