Atmospheric aerosols being an important component of the atmosphere play an important role in global and regional climate change. Aerosols can affect air quality, climate change and human health and have a significant effect on the solar energy budget. To study their quantitative effect is a challenging task due to their high spatial and temporal variability. This parameter represents one of the extinction coefficients of solar radiation and rate of suspended particles in the atmosphere. Ocean Colour Remote Sensing provides information about the four major geophysical parameters like chlorophyll and total suspended sediment concentration, vertical diffuse attenuation co-efficient and the aerosol optical thickness measured at 865 nm. Aerosol optical depth can be expressed as function of wavelength through Angstrom’s equation ？, where “α” and “β” are known as Angstrom parameters. The Angstrom exponent, “α” is related to the size distribution of the aerosol particles and “β” represents the amount of aerosols present in the atmosphere. In this present study, an attempt is made to study the impact of these two parameters by changing values from 0 to 0.05 for “α” and from 0.0 to 0.6 for “β” in SeaDAS processing for estimating the aerosol optical depth. From this study, it is clear that for most of the applications either in the coastal or open ocean waters, alpha value varies from 0.0 to 0.3 over the north Indian Ocean. However, this has been further evaluated by various combinations for retrieving the AOD using OCM-2 data.
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