The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

Ocean color satellites have provided a synoptic view of global phytoplankton for over 25
years through near surface measurements of the concentration of chlorophyll a. While …

Summary and conclusions Thus, after more than a half of century form the launching first
satellite, the remote sensing of the Earth Planet from space has evolved in highly elaborated …

Advanced inversion Multi-term approach utilizing multiple a priori constraints is proposed.
The approach is used as a base for the first unified algorithm GRASP that is applicable to …

The Twomey effect describes the radiative forcing associated with a change in cloud albedo
due to an increase in anthropogenic aerosol emissions. It is driven by the perturbation in …

Most advances in the remote sensing of floating marine plastic litter have been made using
passive remote-sensing techniques in the visible (VIS) to short-wave-infrared (SWIR) parts …

Multi-A**s Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) is a well-established
ground-based measurement technique for the detection of aerosols and trace gases …

NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, scheduled for launch
in the timeframe of 2023, will carry a hyperspectral Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) and two …

Recent technological advances have demonstrated the feasibility of deploying spaceborne
optical detectors with full polarimetric capabilities. The measurement of all four Stokes …

Quantitative estimations of atmospheric aerosol absorption are rather uncertain due to the
lack of reliable information about the global distribution. Because the information about …