Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ...
We analyze new aerosol products from NASA satellite retrievals over the western USA during August 2013, with special attention to locally generated wildfire smoke and downwind plume structures. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550 nm from MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (Terra an...
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ftdatacite:10.13016/m2oioh-p8pe 2023-08-27T04:03:32+02:00 Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... Loría-Salazar, S. Marcela Sayer, Andrew Barnes, John Huang, Jingting Flynn, Connor Lareau, Neil Lee, Jaehwa Lyapustin, Alexei Redemann, Jens Welton, Ellsworth J. Wilkins, Joseph L. Holmes, Heather A. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m2oioh-p8pe https://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/26233 en eng AGU Public Domain Mark 1.0 This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Text Collection article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.13016/m2oioh-p8pe 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z We analyze new aerosol products from NASA satellite retrievals over the western USA during August 2013, with special attention to locally generated wildfire smoke and downwind plume structures. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550 nm from MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (Terra and Aqua Collections 6 and 6.1) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Deep Blue (DB) and MODIS (Terra and Aqua) Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) retrievals are evaluated against ground-based AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) observations. We find a significant improvement in correlation with AERONET and other metrics in the latest DB AOD (MODIS C6.1 r2 = 0.75, VIIRS r2 = 0.79) compared to MODIS C6 (r2 = 0.62). In general, MAIAC (r2 = 0.84) and DB (MODIS C6.1 and VIIRS) present similar statistical evaluation metrics for the western USA and are useful tools to characterize aerosol loading associated with wildfire smoke. We also evaluate three novel NASA MODIS plume injection ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Aerosol Robotic Network DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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We analyze new aerosol products from NASA satellite retrievals over the western USA during August 2013, with special attention to locally generated wildfire smoke and downwind plume structures. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550 nm from MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (Terra and Aqua Collections 6 and 6.1) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Deep Blue (DB) and MODIS (Terra and Aqua) Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) retrievals are evaluated against ground-based AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) observations. We find a significant improvement in correlation with AERONET and other metrics in the latest DB AOD (MODIS C6.1 r2 = 0.75, VIIRS r2 = 0.79) compared to MODIS C6 (r2 = 0.62). In general, MAIAC (r2 = 0.84) and DB (MODIS C6.1 and VIIRS) present similar statistical evaluation metrics for the western USA and are useful tools to characterize aerosol loading associated with wildfire smoke. We also evaluate three novel NASA MODIS plume injection ... |
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Loría-Salazar, S. Marcela Sayer, Andrew Barnes, John Huang, Jingting Flynn, Connor Lareau, Neil Lee, Jaehwa Lyapustin, Alexei Redemann, Jens Welton, Ellsworth J. Wilkins, Joseph L. Holmes, Heather A. |
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Loría-Salazar, S. Marcela Sayer, Andrew Barnes, John Huang, Jingting Flynn, Connor Lareau, Neil Lee, Jaehwa Lyapustin, Alexei Redemann, Jens Welton, Ellsworth J. Wilkins, Joseph L. Holmes, Heather A. Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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Loría-Salazar, S. Marcela Sayer, Andrew Barnes, John Huang, Jingting Flynn, Connor Lareau, Neil Lee, Jaehwa Lyapustin, Alexei Redemann, Jens Welton, Ellsworth J. Wilkins, Joseph L. Holmes, Heather A. |
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Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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Evaluation of Novel NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Aerosol Products and Assessment of Smoke Height Boundary Layer Ratio During Extreme Smoke Events in the Western USA ... |
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evaluation of novel nasa moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer and visible infrared imaging radiometer suite aerosol products and assessment of smoke height boundary layer ratio during extreme smoke events in the western usa ... |
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Public Domain Mark 1.0 This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ |
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