Integration of GOCI and AHI Yonsei Aerosol Optical Depth Products During the 2016 KORUS-AQ and 2018 EMeRGe Campaigns

• Main Authors: Lim, Hyunkwang, Go, Sujung, Kim, Jhoon, Choi, Myungje, Lee, Seoyoung, Song, Chang-Keun, Kasai, Yasuko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m2mqch-xvn2; http://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/20005

The Yonsei AErosol Retrieval (YAER) algorithm for the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) retrieves aerosol optical properties only over dark surfaces, so it is important to mask pixels with bright surfaces. The Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) is equipped with three shortwave-infrared and nine infrared channels, which is advantageous for bright-pixel masking. In addition, multiple visible and near-infrared channels provide a great advantage in aerosol property retrieval from the AHI and GOCI. By applying the YAER algorithm to 10 minutes AHI or 1 hour GOCI data at 6 km × 6 km resolution, diurnal variations and aerosol transport can be observed, which has not previously been possible from low-earth-orbit satellites. This study attempted to estimate the optimal aerosol optical depth (AOD) for East Asia by data fusion, taking into account satellite retrieval uncertainty. The data fusion involved two steps: (1) analysis of error characteristics of each retrieved result with respect to the ground-based Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), and bias correction based on normalized difference vegetation indexes; and (2) estimation of the fused product using ensemble-mean and maximum-likelihood estimation methods. Fused results show a better statistics in terms of fraction within the expected error, correlation coefficient, root-mean-square error, median bias error than the retrieved result for each product.