The multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer (MISR) aerosol optical thickness (AOT) product (τ MISR) was compared with sunphotometer AOT (τ SP) at Dunhuang (40.09◦N, 94.41◦E), located near the Takalamakan and Gobi dust source regions in China, during March–November 2000. This study is unique because AOT measurements from the ground are not routinely available at or near dust source regions. The τ ...

[1] Using 30 days of half-hourly, high temporal resolution GOES 8 imager data and radiative transfer calculations, dust aerosol optical thickness (AOT) was retrieved over the Atlantic Ocean (14 N 26 N, 73 W–63 W) during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE). Dust aerosol size distributions and complex index of refraction inferred from ground-based measurements (1.53–0.0015i at 0.55 mm), which...

The AeroCom exercise diagnoses multicomponent aerosol modules in global modeling. In an initial assessment simulated global distributions for mass and mid-visible aerosol optical thickness (aot) were compared among 20 different modules. Model diversity was also explored in the context of previous comparisons. For the component combined aot general agreement has improved for the annual global me...

Aerosol detection and monitoring by satellite observations has been substantially developed over past decades. While several state-of-art aerosol retrieval techniques provide aerosol properties in global scale, the more detail characteristics remain unknown because most of the satellite sensors are limited to 1km resolution observations. However, a new aerosol retrieval algorithm for the Modera...

Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) data derived by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) from Jan 2001 to Feb 2002 were compared with AOT measurements from 16 Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sites over the contiguous United States. Overall, MISR and AERONET AOTs were strongly correlated (correlation coefficient = 0.81). Regression analysis showed that MISR AOT retrievals had a positiv...