Aerosols affect the Earth's energy budget directly by scattering and absorbing radiation and
indirectly by acting as cloud condensation nuclei and, thereby, affecting cloud properties …

The twin Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors have been flying
on Terra since 2000 and Aqua since 2002, creating an extensive data set of global Earth …

Although a remarkable reduction in the frequency of sand and dust storms (SDSs) in the
past several decades has been reported over northern China (NC), two unexpected mega …

Large wildfires reduce vegetation cover and soil moisture, leaving the temporally degraded
landscapes an emergent source of dust emission. However, the global extent of post-fire …

Proven by multiple theoretical and practical studies, multi-angular spectral polarimetry is
ideal for comprehensive retrieval of properties of aerosols. Furthermore, a large number of …

Since first light in early 2000, operational global quantitative retrievals of aerosol properties
over land have been made from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) …

With the economic development during the past thirty years, the atmospheric particulate
matters over eastern China have reached high levels, causing serious environmental …

Monitoring and describing the spatiotemporal variability in dust aerosols is crucial for
understanding their multiple effects, related feedbacks, and impacts within the Earth system …

Currently, the Moderate‐resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) level II aerosol
product (MOD04/MYD04) is the best aerosol optical depth product suitable for near‐real …

We derived two observation-based global monthly mean dust aerosol optical depth (DAOD)
climatological datasets from 2007 to 2019 with a 2∘(latitude)× 5∘(longitude) spatial …