The phrase "aerosol column" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific contexts, particularly in discussions about atmospheric science, environmental studies, or aerosol research.
Example: "The study measured the concentration of pollutants in the aerosol column above the city."
Alternatives: "aerosol layer" or "aerosol profile".
The aerosol state parameters are the aerosol particle effective radius, effective variance, complex index of refraction, and aerosol column number density.
Specifically, the globally averaged monthly minimum, monthly maximum, and monthly average bias error caused by ignoring urban processing on the total aerosol surface concentration (+0.23, +0.28, and +0.26), the total aerosol column abundance (+0.43, +0.61, and +0.51), the AOD (+0.35, +0.50, and +0.42), and the AAOD (+0.01, +0.18, and +0.09), respectively.
In Table 3, we see that for the equatorial and mid-latitude profiles, the total aerosol column abundance is reduced by no more than 6%.
Returning to Table 3, we see that the aerosol column abundance of these coagulation-suppressed simulations is almost identical to the nominal case.
In Table 4, we report the mean and standard deviation of the integrated aerosol column mass abundance over the final two years of the simulation.
We hereafter refer to this data set as Unconstrained (UC), owing to the unrestricted freedom it gave satellite AOD retrievals to represent the total aerosol column with no influence from the simulated aerosol column.
The recorded spectra can be used to estimate the amount of atmospheric constituents such as aerosol and column water vapor, which are needed for the atmospheric correction of spectral satellite images.
Here, we compare the vertically integrated aerosol mass column abundance for each of the coagulation test simulations.
These excursions produce increases in the aerosol mass column abundance on the order of about 20%, and changes of several microns in effective radius.
In the lower panel, we see that the polar profile exhibits variations at the magnitude of a factor of two in integrated aerosol mass column abundance, and timescales of tens to hundreds of days.
Furthermore, we see much smaller (in both amplitude and period) day-to-day variations in the 'mid2' and 'pol1' profiles, but we also see a much larger aerosol mass column abundance achieved as a quasi-steady state.
