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Fourth GOES-R Users’ Conference: Characterization of GOES Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals during INTEX-A Pubu Ciren 2 , Shobha Kondragunta 1 ,Ana Prados 3, , and Istvan Laszlo 1.
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Fourth GOES-R Users’ Conference:Characterization of GOES Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals during INTEX-APubu Ciren2, Shobha Kondragunta1,Ana Prados3,, and Istvan Laszlo1 • NOAA/NESDIS provided near real time aerosol optical depth (AOD) product derived from GOES-12 Imager to aid in the planning of aircraft/ship flight deployment during INTEX-A/NEAQS field campaign in summer 2004 • GOES AODs variations on different temporal (diurnal, daily, and monthly) and spatial (local and regional) scales show that atmospheric aerosol loading over the US was dominated by long-range transport of smoke from forest fires in Canada/Alaska • Post-mission validation of GOES AODs using AERONET and air-borne (DC-8) measurements show that the accuracy is at ~ 0.2 • Applicability of operational GOES AODs in supporting future field campaigns for air quality monitoring and the potential improvements possible with GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) are discussed