AERONET
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Aeronet, Inc.
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42 Corporate Park Dr., Ste. 150 Irvine, CA 92606 CA Tel. 949-474-3000 Fax 949-474-1477 |
Type: Private
On the web:
http://www.aeronet.com
Aeronet is casting a wide net for its logistics business. The company provides a full range of logistics services both in the US and overseas. Offerings include time-guaranteed domestic freight delivery (ranging from same-day to five-day), air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, shipment tracking, supply chain management, and warehousing and distribution. As a freight forwarder, the company purchases transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers. Aeronet maintains about a dozen offices near major trade gateways throughout the US and operates through agents in other regions. The company was founded in 1982 by chairman, CEO, and owner Anthony Pereira.
Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Anthony N. Pereira
President and COO: Tony L. Medeiros
VP Finance: Ziba Farzaneh
Competitors:
APL Logistics
C.H. Robinson Worldwide
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
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AERONET
AERONET - the AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) is a network of ground-based sun photometers which measure atmospheric aerosol properties. The measurement system is a solar-powered CIMEL Electronique 318A spectral radiometer that measures Sun and sky radiances at a number of fixed wavelengths within the visible and near-infra red spectrum.
AERONET provides continuous cloud-screened observations of spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD), precipitable water, and inversion aerosol products in diverse aerosol regimes. Inversion products are retrieved from almucantar scans of radiance as a function of scattering angle and include products such as aerosol volume size distribution, aerosol complex refractive index, optical absorption (single scattering albedo) and the aerosol scattering phase function. All these products represent an average of the total aerosol column within the atmosphere.
The aerosol properties are retrieved via an inversion algorithm developed by Dubovik and King (2000). Further algorithms were developed, for example, by Dubovik et al. (2006) to take into account non-spherical shapes of aerosol particles such as mineral dust.
AERONET is an observing system in the NOAA Observing System Architecture.
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References
Holben B.N., T.F. Eck, I. Slutsker, D. Tanré, J.P. Buis, A. Setzer, E. Vermote, J.A. Reagan, Y. Kaufman, T. Nakajima, F. Lavenu, I. Jankowiak, and A. Smirnov, 1998: AERONET - A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization, Rem. Sens. Environ., 66, 1-16.
Dubovik, O. and M. D. King, 2000: A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20 673-20 696.
Dubovik, O., A. Sinyuk, T. Lapyonok, B. N. Holben, M. Mishchenko, P. Yang, T. F. Eck, H. Volten, O. Munoz, B. Veihelmann, W. J. van der Zande, J-F Leon, M. Sorokin, and I. Slutsker, 2006: Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust. J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006619.
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