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Robert Frouin is a leading figure in satellite remote sensing of aerosols, with a career dedicated to understanding how particles in the atmosphere—from desert dust to urban pollution—affect our climate and air quality. His foundational work on aerosol optical models, particularly the maritime component derived from AERONET data (138 citations), has become a cornerstone for radiative forcing studies. Frouin pioneered methods to retrieve aerosol optical depth over both ocean and land, including a widely cited technique using GOES visible radiances (123 citations) that corrected for surface reflectance, enabling frequent air quality monitoring. He also advanced long-term climate records by refining AVHRR two-channel retrieval algorithms, producing global aerosol climatologies that remain essential references. His recent work, such as identifying dust misclassification as cloud at a Sonoran Desert AERONET site (26 citations), demonstrates his ongoing commitment to improving data accuracy. With over 400 publications and a career spanning decades at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Frouin’s research has directly shaped how scientists model aerosol impacts on Earth’s energy balance and how satellites track pollution from space.
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