MODIS Aerosol Project


MODIS aerosol retrievals (over the ocean) and evaluation against AERONET observations



You will gain some understandings of inverting spectral reflectance from satellite to retrieve aerosol properties from the following general tasks:

  1. Examine spectral MODIS data for specific cloud free aerosol conditions, for two satellite/sun angle geometries.
  2. Determine the effects of different aerosol types on the spectral reflectance observed by MODIS.
  3. Use a simplified look-up table to retrieve aerosol properties ("by hand") from the MODIS observed reflectance.
  4. Compare aerosol properties retrieved by MODIS with those from AERONET

Instructions, Data and Links:

  • Instructions (MSWord document)
  • Data and Code (zip file)
  • BAMS paper (PDF)
  • MODIS atmosphere web page
  • AERONET homepage
  • MODIS homepage
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            To retrive the files from "*.zip" file:     unzip MODIS_Aerosol_Project.zip  
             If having questions, feel free to send emails to:
    Dr. Rachel T. Pinker     pinker@atmos.ume.edu
    Rob Levy          levy@atmos.umd.edu