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The project aerosol-CCI as part of European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) has provided three aerosol retrieval algorithms for the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) aboard on ENVISAT. For the purpose of estimating different performance of these three algorithms in Asia, in this paper we compared the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) of L2 data (10km×10km) including FMI...
A wide range of data products have been published since the operation of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's TERRA and AQUA satellites. Based on DarkTarget and DeepBlue method, NASA has published Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) products Collection 6.0 with spatial resolution of 3km. Although validated globally, regional and systematic errors are still found in the...
A comparison between the algorithm for Land Aerosol property and Bidirectional reflectance Inversion by Time Series technique (LABITS) and a daily estimation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) algorithm (AERUS-GEO) over land surface using MSG/SEVIRI data over North Africa is presented. To obtain indications about the quantitative performance of two AOD retrieval methods mentioned above, daily SEVIRI AOD...
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is a key parameter reflecting aerosol properties, and it is inevitable to mosaic multi-orbit data while making AOD datasets in some situations due to the limitation in scanning width of various instruments. This article summarizes some conventional methods eliminating seams of mosaic images, and introduces the idea of combining the Gaussian dispersion model into mosaic...
Atmospheric aerosols play an important role in climate change research. It was found that different algorithms and instruments produce somewhat different results for aerosol optical depth (AOD) even if the same location at the same time is observed. Therefore, it is critical to integrate data from multiple platforms and techniques to derive a consistent AOD product. This paper introduced an approach...
In recent years the satellite monitoring capabilities in particular to derive maps of aerosol optical depth (AOD) have increased tremendously. There are many aerosol retrieval algorithms for different satellites and sensors. In 2005, a new algorithm for AOD retrieval by synergetic use of of Terra and Aqua MODIS data (SYNTAM) was proposed by Tang et al. With this algorithm, surface reflectance and...
In this paper, an advanced synergetic algorithm for aerosol retrieval from small satellite data is presented and applied on MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Hyper-Spectral Imager (HSI) data from China HJ-1A satellite of the Environment and Disasters Monitoring Microsatellite Constellation. Using this algorithm, 500m MODIS data are downscaled to 100m based on maximal mutual...
As a result of increasing attention paid to aerosols in climate studies, numerous global satellite aerosol products have been generated. There exists, however, an outstanding problem that these satellite products have substantial discrepancies, that must be lowered substantially for narrowing the range of the estimates of aerosol's climate effects. In this paper, three different data assimilation...
The determination of aerosol's effect contains much uncertainty. During quantification of aerosols via remote sensing, surface reflectance error of 0.01 could bring Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) error of 0.1. In order to avoid this, simultaneous retrieval of AOD and surface properties would be a promising method. In this paper, we present a novel analytic solution to atmospheric radiative transfer equation...
The algorithm is based on the assumption that TOA reflectance increase with the aerosol load as well as the surface reflectance at same time gradually changes on different days within 14 days. Then the surface reflectance is derived from FengYun-2D (FY2D) measurements every 1 hour as the second darkest of reflectance for each time of day to minimize the effect of geometry change and cloud. The “true...
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is a significant indicator of dust episode. However, AOD retrieval over land still remains a difficult task because the measured signal is a composite of reflectance of sunlight by the variable surface covers and back scattering by the semitransparent aerosol layer. In this paper, an approach using bi-angle with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data...
In addition to climate-related processes, aerosol effects are also enormous in regional/local atmospheric phenomena. Fine resolution satellite data can be used to provide a macro-view of extreme aerosol events. The Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) for two extreme aerosol events were retrieved with spatial resolution 500m over East of China and Washington state, USA, respectively. Validation confirms...
On Oct. 28th, 2009, a heavy fog hit East China. From the MODIS RGB composite image, it can be seen clearly that, much of land of the area (110°-123°E, 30°-42°N) was covered by the heavy fog or cloud. Using MODIS multi-satellite algorithm for aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieval, we get the AOD Map at 470, 550 and 660 nm from MODIS data at 1km × 1km resolution. By Validating with the AERONET data,...
This paper describes a case study of satellite data integrated with HYSPLIT forward-trajectory model to forecast air quality in regional scale. During mid-October 2009, a severe haze event occurs in eastern China. With the help of HYSPLIT Trajectory Model, a 24-hr, 48-hr and 72-hr forward trajectory from three regions with high aerosol optical depth (AOD) values were created. Forward trajectories...
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