Energy Climate Interactions

Digital Assignment-1

AQI-

Aerosol-

MODIS Aerosol Product

Overview

The MODIS Aerosol Product monitors the ambient aerosol optical thickness over the oceans
globally and over the continents. Furthermore, the aerosol size distribution is derived over the
oceans, and the aerosol type is derived over the continents. “Fine” aerosols
(anthropogenic/pollution) and “course” aerosols (natural particles; e.g., dust) are also derived.
Daily Level 2 (MOD 04) data are produced at the spatial resolution of a 10 x 10 1-km (at
nadir) pixel array. The aerosol product includes the “deep-blue” algorithm recently developed
to get aerosol optical thickness over bright land areas.

• Dark Target Product PI: Rob Levy

• Deep Blue Product PI: Christina Hsu

• Validated Stage: Stage 2

• PI Product Page URL

• ATBD

• Known Problems

• DOI: Levy, R., Hsu, C., et al., 2015. MODIS Atmosphere L2 Aerosol Product. NASA
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD04_L2.006 (Terra)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD04_L2.006 (Aqua)

Product Details
MODIS Aerosol Data Products can be found at the LAADS Web website.