Profile for Alexander (Sasha) Smirnov

Affiliation: Sigma Space
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Office Phone: 301-614-6626
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Publications

Chubarova, N., Y.Nezval', M.Sviridenkov, A.Smirnov, and I.Slutsker (2012). Smoke aerosol and its radiative effects during extreme fire event over Central Russia in summer 2010 Atmos. Meas. Tech, 5, 557-568
10.5194/atm-5-557-2012

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, Reid, J.S., D.M. Giles, Rivas, M., Singh, S., Tripathi, S., Bruegge, C., Platnick, S., Arnold, G., Krotkov, N., Carn, S., A. Siniuk, Dubovik, J., Arola, A., J.S. Schafer, Artaxo, P., A. Smirnov, Chen, H., and Goloub, P. (2012). Fog- and cloud-induced aerosol modification observed by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) J. Geophys. Res, 117(D07206)
10.1029/2011JD016839

Eck, T., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, D.M. Giles, M.A. Rivas, R.P. Singh, S.N. Tripathi, C.J. Bruegge, S.E. Platnick, G.T. Arnold, N.A. Krotkov, S.A. Carn, A. Sinyuk, O.Dubovik, A. Arola, J.S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, A. Smirnov, H. Chen, and P. Goloub (2012). Fog and cloud induced aerosol modification observed by AERONET J Geophys. Res, 117(D07206)
10.1029/2011JD016839

Giles, D.M., B.N. Holben, T.F. Eck, A. Siniuk, A. Smirnov, I. Slutsker, Dickerson, R.R., Thompson A. M., and J.S. Schafer (2012). An analysis of AERONET aerosol absorption properties and classifications representative of aerosol source regions Journal Geophys. Res, 117(D17203)
10.1029/2012JD018127

Huang, J., N.C.Hsu, S.-C.Tsay, B.N.Holben, E.J.Welton, A.Smirnov, M.-J.Jeong, R.A.Hansell, and T.A.Berkoff (2012). Evaluations of thin cirrus contamination and screening in ground aerosol observations using collocated lidar systems J Geophys. Res, 117(D15204)
10.1029/2012JD017757

Kleidman, R., A.Smirnov, R.C.Levy, S.Mattoo, and D.Tanre (2012). Evaluation and windspeed dependence of MODIS aerosol retrievals over open ocean IEEE Trans. Geosci.Rem.Sens, 50, 429-435
10.1109/tgrs.2011.2162073

Sayer, A., A.Smirnov, N.C.Hsu, L.A.Munchak, and B.N.Holben (2012). Estimating marine aerosol particle volume and number from Maritime Aerosol Network data Atm. Chem. Phys, 12, 8889-8909

Sayer, A., A. Smirnov, N.C. Hsu, and B.N. Holben (2012). A pure marine aerosol model for use in remote sensing applications J Geophys. Res, 117(D0521)
10.1029/2011JD016689

Sayer, A., N.C. Hsu, C. Bettenhausen, Z. Ahmad, B.N. Holben, A. Smirnov, G.E. Thomas, and J. Zhang (2012). SeaWiFS Ocean Aerosol Retrieval (SOAR): algorithm, validation, and comparison with other datasets J Geophys. Res, 117(d03206)
10.1029/2011jd016599

Sinyuk, A, B.N.Holben, A.Smirnov, T.F.Eck, I.Slutsker, J.S.Schafer, D.M.Giles, and M.Sorokin (2012). Assessment of error in aerosol optical depth measured by AERONET due to aerosol forward scattering Geophys Res Letter, 39(L23806)
10.1029/2012GL053894

Smirnov, A., A.M. Sayer, B.N. Holben, N.C. Hsu, S.M. Sakerin, A.Macke, N.B. Nelson, Y. Courcoux, T.J. Smyth, P. Croot, P.K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S.K. Gulev, S. Piketh, R. Losno, S. Kinne, and V.F. Radionov (2012). Effect of wind speed on aerosol optical depth over remote oceans, based on data from the Maritime Aerosol Network Atmos. Meas. Tech, 5, 557-568
10.5194/amt-5-557-2012

Zhang, Y., H.Yu, T.F.Eck, A.Smirnov, M.Chin, L.A.Remer, H.Bian, Q.Tan, R.Levy, B.N.Holben, and S.Piazolla (2012). Aerosol daytime variations over North and South America derived from multi-year AERONET measurements J Geophys. Res, 117(D05211)
10.1029/2011JD017242

Kim, D., Chin, M., Yu, H., T.F. Eck, A. Siniuk, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2011). Dust optical properties over North Africa and Arabian Peninsula derived from the AERONET dataset Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 20181-20201
10.5194/acpd-11-20181-2011

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, A. Siniuk, R. T. Pinker, P.Goloub, H. Chen, B. Chatenet, Z. Li, R.P. Singh, S.N. Tripathi, J.S. Reid, D.M. Giles, O. Dubovik, N.T. O'Neill, and A. Smirnov (2010). Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures Journal Geophysical Research, 115(D24213)
10.1029/2010JD014002

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, A.Sinyuk, R.T. Pinker, P. Goloub, H. Chen, B.Chatenet, Z. Li, R. P. Singh, S. N. Tripathi, J. S. Reid, D.M. Giles, O. Dubovik, N. T. O'Neill, A. Smirnov, P. Wang, and X. Xia (2010). Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D19205)
10.1029/2010JD014002

Kahn, D., B. J. Gaitley, M.J. Garay, D.J. Diner, T.F. Eck, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2010). Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer global aerosol product assessment by comparison with the Aerosol Robotic Network Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D23209)
10.1029/2010JD014601

Kahn, R. A., B. J. Gaitley, M. Garay, S. Paradise, D. J. Diner, J. V. Martonchik, T.F. Eck, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2010). MISR global aerosol product assessment by comparison with AERONET Geophysical Research Letters, 115, D23209
10.1029/2010JD014601

Melin, F., M. Clerici, G. Zibordi, B.N. Holben, and A. Smirnov (2010). Validation of SeaWiFS and MODIS aerosol products with globally distributed AERONET data Remote Sens. Environ., 114, 230-250
10.1016/j.rse.2009.09.003

Moorthy, K. K., S. N. Beegum, S. S. Babu, A. Smirnov, S. Rachel John, K.R. Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, C. Dutt, and V. S. Nair (2010). Optical and physical characteristics of Bay of Bengal Aerosols during W_ICARB: Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in the marine atmospheric boundry layer and in the vertical column Geophysical Research Letters, 115, D24213
10.1029/2010JD014094

Smirnov, A., B.N. Holben, A. Macke, Y. Courcoux, P. Croot, S. Sakerin, T. Smyth, T. Zielinski, M. Harvey, J. Goes, N. Nelson, P. Quinn, V. Radionov, S. Triquet, J. Sciare, C. Duarte, K. Voss, K. Krishna Moorthy, N. Nalli, E. Joseph, G. Milinevsky, S. Gulev, D. Covert, I. Slutsker, N. O. O'Neill, D. Giles, and T.F. Eck (2010). Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of AERONET- relevance to ocean color remote sensing, Oceans from Space Oceans From Space, 211-212

Wilson, D. I., S.J. Piketh, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2010). Aerosol optical properties over the South Alantic and Southren Ocean during the 140th cruise of the M/V S.A Agulhas Atm. Res, 98, 285-296

Alexandrov, M.A., B. Schmid, D.D. Turner, B. Cairns, V. Oinas, A.A. Lacis, S.I. Gutman, E.R. Westwater, A. Smirnov, and J. Eilers (2009). Columnar water vapor retrievals from MFRSR data J. Geophys. Res., 114(D02306)
10.1029/2008JD010543

Cong, Z., S. Kang, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2009). Aerosol optical properties at Nam Co, a remote site in central Tibetan Plateau Atm. Res., 92(42-48)
10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.08.005

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Siniuk, E.J. Hyer, N.T. O'Neil, G.E. Shaw, J.R. Vande Castle, F.S. Chapin, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E.F. Vermote, J.S. Schafer, D.M. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokin, and W.W. Newcomb (2009). Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site J. Geophys. Res., 114(D11201)
10.1029/2008JD010870

Livingston, J.M., J. Redermann, P.B. Russell, O. Torres, B. Veihelmann, P. Veefkind, R. Braak, A. Smirnov, L. Remer, R.W. Bergstrom, O. Coddington, K.S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, R. Johnson, and Q. Zhang (2009). Comparison of aerosol optical depths from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura with results from airborne sunphotometry, other space and ground measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX-B Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6743-6165

Sakerin, S.M., S.A. Beresnev, S.Yu. Gorda, D.M. Kabanov, G.I. Kornienko, Yu.I. Markelov, A.V. Mikhalev, S.V. Nikolashkin, M.V. Panchenko, V.V. Pol'kin, A. Smirnov, M.A. Tashchilin, S.A. Turchinovich, Yu.S. Turchinovich, B.N. Holben, and T.A. Eremina (2009). Annual aerosol spectral optical depth characterization in Siberia Atm. Ocean Optics, 22(6), 566-574

Smirnov, A., B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D.M. Giles, C.R. McClain, T.F. Eck, S.M. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P.K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T.J. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J.I. Goes, N.B. Nelson, P. Larouche, V.F. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Krishna Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E.J. Robertson, and F. Jourdin (2009). Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network J. Geophys. Res., 114(D06204)
10.1029/2008JD011257

Eck, T.F., N.T. O'Neill, B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D.M. Giles, S.C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A. Al Mandoos, M.R. Khan, E.A. Reid, J.S. Schafer, M. Sorokin, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker (2008). Spatial and temporal variability of column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in summer J. Geophys. Res. Atmosp., 113(D01204), 19 pp
10.1029/2007JD008944

O'Neill, N.T., T.F. Eck, J.S. Ried, A. Smirnov, and O. Pancrati (2008). Coarse mode optical information retrievalbe using ultraviolet to short-wave infrared Sun photometry: Application to United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol Experimental data J. Geophys. Res., 113(D05212), 11
10.1029/2007JD009052

Sakerin, S.M., D.M. Kabanov, V.F. Radionov, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, S.A. Terpugova, and B.N. Holben (2008). About the results on the atmosphere aerosol optical depth in circumnavigation around Antarctica (the 53d RAE) Atm. Ocean Optics, 21(12), 900-904

Sakerin, S.M., D.M. Kabanov, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2008). Aerosol optical depth of atmosphere over the oceans in the wavelength range 0.37–4 mm Int. J. Rem. Sens., 29, 2519-2547

Tian, B., M.I. Mishchenko, I.V. Geogdzhayev, T. Tyranowski, Y.L. Yung, Q. Li, R.A. Kahn, D.E. Waliser, O. Torres, and A. Smirnov (2008). Does the Madden-Julian Oscillation influence aerosol variability? J. Geophys. Res., 113(D12215), 11 pp
10.1029/2007JD009372

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Siniuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D.M. Giles, N.T. O'Neill, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A.L. Mandoos, M.R. Kahn, E.A. Reid, J.S. Schafer, M. Sorokin, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker (2007). Spatial and Temporal Variability of Column Integrated Aerosol Optical Properties in the Southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in Summer J. Geophys. Res.
10.1029/2007JD008944

Malyshkin, A.V., V.A. Poddubny, Yu.I. Markelo, S.A. Beresnev, C.Yu. Gorda, S.M. Sakerin, and A. Smirnov (2007). Middle Ural in the AEROSIBNET system: preliminary analysis of regional sources of the atmospheric aerosol contamination Atm. Ocean Optics, 20, 457-460

Sakerin, S.M., A. Smirnov, V.V. Pol'kin, D.M. Kabanov, M.V. Panchenko, B.N. Holben, and O.V. Kopelevich (2007). Aerosol optical and microphysical properties over the Atlantiv Ocean during the 19th cruise of the Research Vessel Akademik Sergey Vavilov J. Geophys. Res., 112(D10220), 9 pp

Sakerin, S.M., D.M. Kabanov, V.S. Kozlov, M.V. Panchenko, V.V. Pol'kin, A.B. Tikhomirov, N.I. Vlasov, V.F. Radionov, A. Smirnov, B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, and L.P. Golobokova (2007). Results of the studies of aerosol characteristics in the 52 RAE Problems of Arctic and Antarctica, 77, 67-75

Holben, B.N., T.F. Eck, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, A. Sinyuk, J.S. Schafer, D.M. Giles, and O. Dubovik (2006). Aeronet's Version 2.0 quality assurance criteria Proc. SPIE, 6408(64080Q), DOI:10.1117/12.70652

Lyapustin, A., Y. Wang, J. Martonchik, J.L. Privette, B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, A. Sinyuk, and A. Smirnov (2006). Local Analysis of MISR Surface BRF and Albedo Over GSFC and Mongu AERONET Sites IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 44(7), 1707-1718

Sakerin, S.M., D.M. Kabanov, A. Smirnov, B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D.M. Giles, and O.V. Kopelevich (2006). Variability of aerosol optical layer of the atmosphere in South Atlantic, Basic Researches of Oceans and Seas. N.P. Laverov (Ed.), Nauka, Moscow, Russia:

Schmid, B., R. Ferrare, C. Flynn, R. Elleman, D. Covert, A. Strawa, E. Welton, D. Turner, H. Jonsson, J. Redemann, J. Eilers, K. Ricci, A.G. Hallar, M. Clayton, J. Michalsky, A. Smirnov, B.N. Holben, and J. Barnard (2006). How well do state-of-the-art techniques measuring the vertical profile of tropospheric aerosol extinction compare? J. Geophys. Res., 111(D05S07), 25 pp

Smirnov, A., B.N. Holben, S.M. Sakerin, D.M. Kabanov, I. Slutsker, M. Chin, T.L. Diehl, L.A. Remer, R. Kahn, A. Ignatov, L. Liu, M. Mishchenko, T.F. Eck, T.L. Kucsera, D.M. Giles, and O.V. Kopelevich (2006). Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean: Comparison with satellite retrievals and GOCART model Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L14817), 4 pp

Aculinin, A., A. Smirnov, V. Smicov, T.F. Eck, and B.N. Holben (2005). Solar radiation, total column ozone content and aerosol optical properties monitoring at the ground-based station in Kishinev, Moldova Geophys. Res. Abstracts, 7, 2 pp

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, P. Goloub, H.B. Chen, B. Chatenet, L. Gomes, X.-Y. Zhang, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, D.M. Giles, and I. Slutsker (2005). Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid-Pacific J. Geophys. Res., 110(D06202), 1-18

Kahn, R., W.-H. Li, J.V. Martonchik, C.J. Bruegge, D.J. Diner, B.J. Gaitley, W. Abdou, O. Dubovik, B.N. Holben, A. Smirnov, Z. Jin, and D. Clark (2005). MISR Calibration and Implications for Low-Light-Level Aerosol Retrieval over Dark Water J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 1032-1052

Perrone, M.R., M. Santese, A.M. Tafuro, B.N. Holben, and A. Smirnov (2005). Aerosol load characterization over South—East Italy for one year of AERONET sun-photometer measurements Atmos. Res., 75, 111-133

Sakerin, S.M., D.M. Kabanov, M.V. Panchenko, V.V. Polkin, B.N. Holben, A. Smirnov, S.A. Beresnev, S.Yu. Gorda, G.I. Kornienko, S.V. Nikolashkin, V.A. Poddubnyi, and M.A. Tashchilin (2005). Monitoring of atmospheric aerosol in the Asian part of Russia in 2004 within the framework of AEROSIBNET program Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics, English Translation, 18, 871-875

Semenov, V.K., A. Smirnov, V.N. Aref'ev, V.P. Sinyakov, and L.I. Sorokina (2005). Aerosol optical depth over the mountainous region in central Asia (Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan) Geophsy. Res. Lett., 32(L05807), 1-5

Smirnov, A., S. Sakerin, B.N. Holben, D. Kabanov, I. Slutsker, D.M. Giles, and O. Kopelevich (2005). Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean Geophys. Res. Abstracts, 7, 2 pp

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, N.T. O'Neill, J.S. Schafer, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, M.A. Yamasoe, and P. Artaxo (2003). High aerosol optical depth biomass burning events: A comparison of optical properties for different source regions Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(20), 2035
10.1029/2003GL017861

Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, D.E. Ward, M.M. Mukelabai, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, J.S. Schafer, N.C. Hsu, S.J. Piketh, A. Queface, J. Le Roux, R.J. Swap, and I. Slutsker (2003). Variability of biomass burning aerosol optical characteristics in southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign and a comparison of single scattering albedo estimates from radiometric measurements J. Geophys. Res., 108(D13), 8447
10.1029/2002JD002321

Remer, L. A., D. Tanre, Y. J. Kaufman, C. Ichoku, S. Matto, R. Levy, D. A. Chu, B.N. Holben, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, J. V. Martins, R-R. Li, and Z. Ahmad (2002). Validation of MODIS Aerosol Retrieval Over Ocean Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(12)
10.1029/2001GL013204

Holben, B.N., D. Tanre, A. Smirnov, T.F. Eck, I. Slutsker, N. Abuhassan, W. Newcomb, and J.S. Schafer (2001). An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET J. Geophys. Res., 106(D11), 12067-12097