Fig. 1.
Simulated retrievals using 10-parameter state space. The two lines surrounding the 1-to-1 line represent ± 3σ, or three standard deviations. The red line represents the least squares bisector. The units are μm for effective radius, m/s for wind speed and mg/m3 for chlorophyll concentration: the optical depth, effective variance, real refractive index, and single-scattering albedo are unitless. The ranges for the retrieval parameters used in this simulated study are slightly different than the finalized ranges defined by Eq. (2) for real data, but illustrate that the algorithm can successfully retrieve the 8 aerosol and windspeed parameters in 87% of the cases, and chlorophyll concentration in 67% of the cases, using simulated data where all 10 parameters are randomized.