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 …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

J Quaas, H Jia, C Smith, AL Albright… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic aerosols exert a cooling influence that offsets part of the greenhouse gas
warming. Due to their short tropospheric lifetime of only several days, the aerosol forcing …

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 …

Air pollution scenario over China during COVID-19

JE Nichol, M Bilal, MA Ali, Z Qiu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented slowdown in China during the COVID-19 period of November 2019 to
April 2020 should have reduced pollution in smog-laden cities. However, moderate …

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 …

Resilience to Air Pollution: A Novel Approach for Detecting and Predicting Aerosol Atmospheric Rivers within Earth System Boundaries

KS Rautela, S Singh, MK Goyal - Earth Systems and Environment, 2024 - Springer
The study explores extreme aerosol transport (EAT) events using atmospheric river (ARs)
dynamics to identify aerosol atmospheric rivers (AARs). This provides insight into their …

Evaluation and comparison of CMIP6 models and MERRA-2 reanalysis AOD against Satellite observations from 2000 to 2014 over China

MA Ali, M Bilal, Y Wang, Z Qiu, JE Nichol… - Geoscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization and urbanization along with a growing population are contributing
significantly to air pollution in China. Evaluation of long-term aerosol optical depth (AOD) …

RETRACTED: Seasonal correlation of aerosols with soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and vegetation over Pakistan using remote sensing

U Basharat, S Tariq, MN Chaudhry, M Khan… - 2023 - Elsevier
Post-publication, the editor discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the
original submission and the revised version of this paper. In summary, the paper was …

[HTML][HTML] Using radiant intensity to characterize the anisotropy of satellite-derived city light at night

X Li, X Shang, Q Zhang, D Li, F Chen, M Jia… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent studies have described the anisotropy of ALAN based on statistical analysis of a
quadratic model-based relationship between radiances derived from the VIIRS Day/Night …