Accuracy Assessment of Aqua-MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth over Coastal Regions: Importance of Quality Flag and Sea Surface Wind Speed

• Main Author: Anderson, Jacob
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2012
• Subjects: Aerosol; MODIS; AERONET; Satellite; Atmospheric Sciences; Earth Sciences; Environmental Monitoring; Other Earth Sciences; Merra; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geoscidiss/29; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geoscidiss/article/1029/viewcontent/Thesis_Final.pdf

Using data collected from 62 coastal stations worldwide from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) from 2002-2011, accuracy assessments are made for coastal aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved from MODIS aboard the Aqua satellite. It is found that coastal AODs (at 550 nm) characterized respectivel...