Absorbing Aerosol Optical Depth From OMI/TROPOMI Based on the GBRT Algorithm and AERONET Data in Asia

Absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) Asia machine learning Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MODIS) TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI)
["Li, Ding","Cohen, Jason Blake","Qin, Kai","Xue, Yong","Rao, Lanlan"] 2023-01-01 期刊论文
Quantifying the concentration of absorbing aerosol is essential for pollution tracking and calculation of atmospheric radiative forcing. To quickly obtain absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) with high-resolution and high-accuracy, the gradient boosted regression trees (GBRT) method based on the joint data from Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MODIS), and AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) is used for TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI). Compared with the ground-based data, the correlation coefficient of the results is greater than 0.6 and the difference is generally within +/- 0.04. Compared with OMI data, the underestimation has been greatly improved. By further restricting the impact factors, three valid conclusions can be drawn: 1) the model with more spatial difference information achieves better results than the model with more temporal difference information; 2) the training dataset with a high cloud fraction (0.1-0.4) can partly improve the performance of GBRT results; and 3) when aerosol optical depth (AOD) is less than 0.3, the perform of retrieved AAODs is still good by comparing with ground-based measurements. The novel finding is expected to contribute to regional and even urban anthropogenic pollution research.
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