Characterizing the 2015 Indonesia fire event using modified MODIS aerosol retrievals

Shi, Yingxi R.; Levy, Robert C.; Eck, Thomas F.; Fisher, Brad; Mattoo, Shana; Remer, Lorraine A.; Slutsker, Ilya; Zhang, Jianglong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-259-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-259-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-259-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

Research article

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08 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 08 Jan 2019

Characterizing the 2015 Indonesia fire event using modified MODIS aerosol retrievals

Yingxi R. Shi, Robert C. Levy, Thomas F. Eck, Brad Fisher, Shana Mattoo, Lorraine A. Remer, Ilya Slutsker, and Jianglong Zhang

Data sets

The Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) NASA https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/#atmosphere-chart

OMI/Aura and MODIS/Aqua Merged Aerosol Geo-colocation Product 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13 x 24 km V003, Greenbelt, MD, USA J. Joiner https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/OMMYDAGEO_003.html

Short summary

The Indonesian fire and smoke event of 2015 was an extreme episode that affected public health and caused severe economic and environmental damage. We managed to retrieve data over very thick smoke plumes and produce a lot more high aerosol loading data that were previously missed by other satellite products. These results will benefit varieties of downstream research that use the satellite aerosol data and will influence the future development of the global satellite aerosol algorithm.