Paper: astro-ph/0510163
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:45:18 GMT (347kb)

Title: Atmospheric Aerosol Limb Scanning Based on the Lunar Eclipses
Photometry

Authors: O.S. Ugolnikov, I.A. Maslov

Categories: astro-ph

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Journal of Quantitative
Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
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The work is devoted to the analysis of the surface photometric observations
of two total lunar eclipses in 2004. The lunar surface relative brightness
distribution inside the umbra was used to retrieve the vertical distribution of
aerosol extinction of the solar radiation expanding by a tangent path and its
dependence on the location at the limb of the Earth. The upper altitude of
troposphere aerosol layer was estimated for different latitude zones. The
correlation between additional aerosol extinction in the upper troposphere and
cyclones was investigated.

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