Khassoum Correa

Jul 20, 2023 | mdpi.com | Eric Machu |Julien Brajard |Daouda Diouf |Khassoum Correa

Abstract:The Sahara desert is a major global source of dust that is mostly transported southwest over the ocean off West Africa. The presence of this dust impacts the remote sensing of ocean surface properties. These aerosols have absorbing properties that are poorly accounted for in the standard ocean color data processing algorithm. This can result in an overestimation of the atmospheric contribution to the ocean color signal and consequently an underestimation of the oceanic contribution.