Dust Identification over Arid and Semiarid Regions of Asia Using AIRS Thermal Infrared Channels

Table 1

The input parameters of dust and cloud for the brightness temperature simulation.

	Dust	Ice cloud	Water cloud
Optical depth	1.0	3.0	15.0
Layer height	3 km	10 km	1 km
Particle effective radius	1.3 μm	30 μm	10 μm
Surface temperature	290 K
Surface emissivity	1.0
Atmosphere profile	Middle latitude winter atmospheric profile