Correction: Rémy, S.; Anguelova, M.D. Improving the Representation of Whitecap Fraction and Sea Salt Aerosol Emissions in the ECMWF IFS-AER. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4856

Missing Citation

In the original publication [1], Holben et al. (1998) [2] was not cited. The citation has now been inserted in Section 2. Models and Data, Section 2.3.3. Aerosol Optical Depth, Paragraphs Number 2 and 3 and should read:

“We evaluate the simulated AOD with both satellite and in situ data for AOD. The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) provides a merged AOD product at 550 nm as gridded (1° × 1°) monthly AOD data over long period (from 1995 to 2017). This product has been constructed by merging retrievals of AOD from various satellite sensors; the merging follows different approaches. The choice of the merged product is based on comparisons to in situ observations of AOD from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET, Holben et al., 1998 [31]). Extensive details of the FMI merged AOD are given in [32]. Over most of oceans, the AOD from FMI is representative of the sea salt AOD because other aerosol species have only a local/regional impact on average, such as dust over the Atlantic off the west coast of Africa and anthropogenic aerosols over the Western Pacific.

We also compare our simulated AOD directly to AERONET observations of AOD at 500 nm at 14 selected sites that are representative of sea salt aerosol in open ocean or coastal zone (Holben et al., 1998 [31]). The AERONET stations used are: Ragged Point, Reunion St Denis, Noumea, Midway Island, Key Biscayne, Key Biscayne2, Cape San Juan, Edinburgh, Cabo da Roca, ARM Graciosa, American Samoa, Amsterdam Island, Andenes, and Birkenes. AERONET observations give the total AOD, i.e., the AOD of all aerosol species, and is compared to the simulated AOD at 500 nm, which is interpolated to the AERONET sites. We then apply a time averaging to obtain weekly skill scores”.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.