Satellite remote sensing of aerosol optical depth: advances, challenges, and perspectives

X Wei, NB Chang, K Bai, W Gao - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is widely recognized as a critical indicator in understanding
atmospheric physics and regional air quality because of its capability for quantifying aerosol …

Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases

M Bilal, A Mhawish, JE Nichol, Z Qiu, M Nazeer… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pakistan ranks third in the world in terms of mortality attributable to air pollution, with aerosol
mass concentrations (PM 2.5) consistently well above WHO (World Health Organization) air …

Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth

H Che, K Gui, X **a, Y Wang, BN Holben… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) has become a crucial metric for assessing global climate
change. Although global and regional AOD trends have been studied extensively, it remains …

An improved algorithm for retrieving high resolution fine-mode aerosol based on polarized satellite data: Application and validation for POLDER-3

B Ge, X Mei, Z Li, W Hou, Y **e, Y Zhang, H Xu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fine-mode aerosols (FMA), generally generated from anthropogenic sources, play an
essential role in global radiation balance, climate change, atmospheric environment, and …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the status of improved air quality in world cities due to COVID-19 led temporary reduction in anthropogenic emissions

S Sannigrahi, P Kumar, A Molter, Q Zhang, B Basu… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Clean air is a fundamental necessity for human health and well-being. Anthropogenic
emissions that are harmful to human health have been reduced substantially under COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Global land surface temperature change (2003–2017) and its relationship with climate drivers: AIRS, MODIS, and ERA5-land based analysis

J Liu, DFT Hagan, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the water cycle and energy balance at
global and regional scales. Large-scale LST estimates can be obtained from satellite …

Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions

RR Buchholz, HM Worden, M Park, G Francis… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Following past studies to quantify decadal trends in global carbon monoxide (CO) using
satellite observations, we update estimates and find a CO trend in column amounts of …

Health risk and disease burden attributable to long-term global fine-mode particles

X Yang, Y Wang, C Zhao, H Fan, Y Yang, Y Chi… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) pollution has long been a global environmental
problem and still poses a great threat to public health. This study investigates global …

Decadal-scale trends in regional aerosol particle properties and their linkage to emission changes

B Zhao, JH Jiang, Y Gu, D Diner… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding long-term trends in aerosol loading and properties is essential for evaluating
the health and climatic effects of these airborne particulates as well as the effectiveness of …

Intercomparison in spatial distributions and temporal trends derived from multi-source satellite aerosol products

J Wei, Y Peng, R Mahmood, L Sun… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Satellite-derived aerosol products provide long-term and large-scale observations for
analysing aerosol distributions and variations, climate-scale aerosol simulations, and …