Aerosols affect Earth's climate both directly and indirectly, which is the largest uncertainty in
the assessment of radiative forcings affecting anthropogenic climate change. The standard …

Aerosols pose a significant impact on the atmospheric environment and public health.
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is one of the essential parameters for quantifying aerosols …

Abstract The Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2)
provides a spatiotemporal seamless simulation of global aerosol properties. This study …

Dust plays a vital role in the Earth's climate system and can also modulate solar energy yield
from photovoltaics due to soiling and it also impacts concentrated solar power outputs by up …

Abstract The” Black Summer” 2019–2020 bushfires covered large areas of eastern Australia,
causing substantial health impacts, animal deaths and damage to infrastructure. The smoke …

Extreme aerosol pollution poses significant risks to the climate, environment, and human
health. To investigate the formation and impacts of aerosol pollution extreme events (APEE) …

Utilizing the well-calibrated, high-spectral-resolution equal-quality performance of daytime
and nighttime (09: 30 and 21: 30 local solar Equator-crossing time (local solar ECT)) …

Monitoring particulate matter (PM) air pollution in terms of both concentration and
composition, is very important due to its effects on human health and climate. In the …

We present an evaluation of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) retrievals from the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over Australia covering the period 2001 …

The second-generation Modern-ERA Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications
(MERRA-2) land surface temperature (LST) dataset has been widely used for permafrost …