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OMI Cloud Data


OMI produces cloud fraction and cloud pressure that are used in OMI trace-gas retrievals and by other Aura sensors. Two methods are used for the cloud pressure retrieval, O2-O2 absorption & Rotational Raman Scattering methods. O2-O2 absorption method is based on spectral fitting of O2-O2 absorption band at 477 nm using DOAS technique. Rotational Raman Scattering (RRS) method is based on the least square fitting of the Ring spectrum (filling-in of Fraunhofer lines in the range 392 to 398 nm due to rotational Raman scattering).
Ahmad, et al., Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5151, 619 (2003)

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