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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:

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 Robert.C.Levy@nasa.gov

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