Introducing the 4.4 km spatial resolution Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aerosol product

Garay, M.J., M.L. Witek, R.A. Kahn, F.C. Seidel Caprez, . Limbacher, M. Bull, D.J. Diner, E. Hansen, O.V. Kalashnikova, H. Lee, A. Nastan, and Y. Yu (2020), Introducing the 4.4 km spatial resolution Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aerosol product, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 593-628, doi:10.5194/amt-13-593-2020.
Abstract

The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument has been operational on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra satellite since early 2000, creating an extensive data set of global Earth observations. Here we introduce the latest version of the MISR aerosol products. The level 2 (swath) product, which is reported on a 4.4 km spatial grid, is designated as version 23 (V23) and contains retrieved aerosol optical depth (AOD) and aerosol particle property information derived from MISR’s multiangle observations over both land and water. The changes from the previous version of the algorithm (V22) have significant impacts on the data product and its interpretation. The V23 data set is created from two separate retrieval algorithms that are applied over dark water and land surfaces, respectively. Besides increasing the horizontal resolution to 4.4 km compared with the coarser 17.6 m resolution in V22 and streamlining the format and content, the V23 product has added geolocation information, pixel-level uncertainty estimates, and improved cloud screening. MISR data can be obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atlevel 2 product version is designated as F15_0032. Both the level 2 and level 3 products are now provided in NetCDF format.

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Research Program
Atmospheric Composition
Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis Program (ACMAP)
Mission
Terra- MISR

 

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