A First Evaluation of ERA5-Land Reanalysis Temperature Product Over the Chinese Qilian Mountains

Evaluation of the MERIS aerosol product over land with AERONET

The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) launched in February 2002 on-board the ENVISAT spacecraft is making global observations of top-ofatmosphere (TOA) radiances. Aerosol optical properties are retrieved over land using Look-Up Table (LUT) based algorithm and surface reflectances in the blue and the red spectral regions. We compared instantaneous aerosol optical thicknesses retriev...

First Validation of Meris Aerosol Product over Land

The detection of Dense Dark Vegetation (DDV) using the Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index (ARVI) and then the aerosol retrieval over DDV are the critical points of the land part of the processing of MERIS images implemented in the level 2 processor. We present here the first validation attempt of the MERIS aerosol product over land by checking its consistency and comparing it to AERONET...

A comparative study of quantitative mapping methods for bias correction of ERA5 reanalysis precipitation data

This study evaluates the ability of different quantitative mapping (QM) methods as a bias correction technique for ERA5 reanalysis precipitation data. Climate type and geographical location can affect the performance of the bias correction method due to differences in precipitation characteristics. For this purpose, ERA5 reanalysis precipitation data for the years 1989-2019 for 10 selected syno...

MERIS aerosol product over land

Evaluation of the MERIS aerosol product over land with AERONET J. Vidot , R. Santer, and O. Aznay Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences de l’Environnement, Maison de la Recherche en Environnement Naturel, Université du Littoral Cote d’Opale, Wimereux, France now at: Lab. de Météorologie Physique, Université...

High diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in southern Qilian Mountains