Research Article
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 |
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