期刊
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
卷 6, 期 9, 页码 2455-2475出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-2455-2013
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- MOE/GOSAT
- MOE/GER [A1101]
- JST/CREST/EMS/TEEDDA
- JAXA/EarthCARE
- GCOM-C
- MEXT/VL for climate diagnostics
- MEXT/RECCA/SALSA
- MEXT/KAKENHI/Innovative Areas [2409]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24110002, 2409] Funding Source: KAKEN
We present a validation study of Collection 5 MODIS level 2 Aqua and Terra AOT (aerosol optical thickness) and AE (Angstrom exponent) over ocean by comparison to coastal and island AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) sites for the years 2003-2009. We show that MODIS (MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) AOT exhibits significant biases due to wind speed and cloudiness of the observed scene, while MODIS AE, although overall unbiased, exhibits less spatial contrast on global scales than the AERONET observations. The same behaviour can be seen when MODIS AOT is compared against Maritime Aerosol Network (MAN) data, suggesting that the spatial coverage of our datasets does not preclude global conclusions. Thus, we develop empirical correction formulae for MODIS AOT and AE that significantly improve agreement of MODIS and AERONET observations. We show these correction formulae to be robust. Finally, we study random errors in the corrected MODIS AOT and AE and show that they mainly depend on AOT itself, although small contributions are present due to wind speed and cloud fraction in AOT random errors and due to AE and cloud fraction in AE random errors. Our analysis yields significantly higher random AOT errors than the official MODIS error estimate (0.03+0.05 tau), while random AE errors are smaller than might be expected. This new dataset of bias-corrected MODIS AOT and AE over ocean is intended for aerosol model validation and assimilation studies, but also has consequences as a stand-alone observational product. For instance, the corrected dataset suggests that much less fine mode aerosol is transported across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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