A study of 15-year aerosol optical thickness and direct shortwave aerosol radiative effect trends using MODIS, MISR, CALIOP and CERES

Alfaro-Contreras, Ricardo; Zhang, Jianglong; Reid, Jeffrey S.; Christopher, Sundar

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13849-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13849-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13849-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

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21 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 21 Nov 2017

A study of 15-year aerosol optical thickness and direct shortwave aerosol radiative effect trends using MODIS, MISR, CALIOP and CERES

Ricardo Alfaro-Contreras, Jianglong Zhang, Jeffrey S. Reid, and Sundar Christopher

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RC1: 'Review of AOT/SWARE trend paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Jun 2017
- AC1: 'Responses to reviewer 1', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Responses to reviewer 2', Jianglong Zhang, 24 Aug 2017

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AR by Jianglong Zhang on behalf of the Authors (05 Sep 2017)

Short summary

Using near-full data records of Terra and Aqua MODIS and MISR data, we have evaluated aerosol optical depth trends over global oceans (MODIS and MISR) and land (MISR). Also, for the first time, shortwave aerosol radiative effect (SWARE) trends are estimated over global oceans with the combined use of observations from MODIS and CERES.