Desert Aerosols - Remote Sensing Lab

DESERT AEROSOLS

PAPERS

2005

Ben-Ze’ev, E., Karnieli, A., Agam, N., Kaufman, Y. J. and Holben, B.N. Assessing vegetation condition in the presence of biomass burning smoke by applying the Aerosol-Free Vegetation Index (AFRI) on MODIS images. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Remote Sensing.

2002

Andreae, T.W., Andreae, M.O., Ichoku, C., Maenhaut, W., Cafmeyer, J., Karnieli, A., and Orlovsky, L. 2002. Light scattering by dust and anthropogenic aerosol at a remote site in the Negev desert, Israel. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 107, art. no. 4008.

2001

Formenti, P., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W., Galani, E., Vasaras, A., Zerefos, C., Amiridis, V., Orlovsky, L., Karnieli, A., Wendisch, M., Wex, H., Holben, B.N., Maenhaut W., and Lelieveld, J. 2001. Aerosol optical properties and large-scale transport of air masses: observations at a coastal and a semiarid site in the eastern Mediterranean during summer 1998. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 106, 9807-9826.

Formenti, P., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W., Ichoku, C., Schebeske, G., Kettle, J., Maenhaut, W., Cafmeyer, J., Ptasinsky, J., Karnieli, A. and Lelieveld, J. 2001. Physical and chemical characteristics of aerosols over the Negev Desert (Israel) during summer 1996. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 106, 4871-4890.

Kaufman, Y.J., Tanre, D., Dubovik, O., Karnieli, A., Remer, L.A. 2001. Satellite and ground-based remote sensing of dust absorption of sunlight. Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1479-1482.

Karnieli, A., Kaufman, Y.J., Remer, L.A., Ward, A. 2001. AFRI – Aerosol free vegetation index. Remote Sensing of Environment, 77, 10-21.

Holben, B.H., Tanre, D., Smirnov, A., Eck, T.F., Slutsker, I., Chatenet, B., Lavenue, F., Kaufman, Y.J., Van de Castle, J., Setzer, A., Markham, B., Clark, M., Frouin, R., Karineli, A., O’Neill, N., Pietras, C., Pinker, R., Voss, K., Zibordi, G. 2001. An emerging ground based aerosol climatology: Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 106, 12,067-12,097.

Tanre, D., Kaufman, Y.J., Holben, B.H., Chatenet, B., Karnieli, A., Lavenu, F., Blarel, L., Dubovik, O., Remer, L.A., and Smirnov, A. 2001. Climatology of dust aerosol size distribution and optical properties derived from remotely sensed data in the solar spectrum. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 106 (D16), 18205-18217.

2000

Kaufman, Y.J., Karnieli, A., Tanre, D. 2000. Detection of dust over deserts using satellite data in the solar wavelengths. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 20, 525-531.

1999

Ichoku, C., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W., Meixner, F.X., Schebeske, G., Formenti, P., Maenhaut, W., Cafmeyer, J., Ptasinski, J., Karnieli, A., and Orlovsky, L. 1999. Interrelationship between aerosol characteristics and light scattering during late-winter in an Eastern Mediterranean arid environment. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 104, 24,371-24,393.

1997

Maenhaut, W. Cafmeyer, J., Ptasinski, J., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W., Elbert, W., Meixner, F.X., Karnieli, A., and Ichoku. C. 1997. Chemical composition and light scattering of the atmospheric aerosol at a remote site in the Negev desert, Israel. Journal of Aerosol Science, 28, S73-S74.

Pinker, R.T., Ferrare, R.A., Karnieli, A., Aro, T.O., Kaufman, Y.J. and Zangvil, A. 1997. Aerosol optical depths in a semiarid region. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 11,123-11,137.

1996

Maenhaut, W., Salomonovic, R., Cafmeyer, J., Ichoku, C., Karnieli, A. and Andreae, M.O. 1996. Anthropogenic and natural radiatively active aerosol types at Sede Boker, Israel. Journal of Aerosol Science, 27, S47-S48.

Pre-1995

Kaufman, Y.J., Gitelson, A., Karnieli, A., Ganor, E., Fraser, R.S., Nakajima, T., Mattoo, S. and Holben, B.N. 1994. Size distribution and phase function of aerosol particles retrieved from sky brightness measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 10,341-10,356.