"We would like to acknowledge the NASA and MODIS team for the maintenance of satellite aerosol products. The work of V.S. Martins was funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) Program. We thank Y. Wang for updating MAIAC data available at ftp://dataportal.nccs.nasa.gov/DataRelease/SouthAmerica/. We also thank AERONET PIs (B. Holben, P. Artaxo, E. Pereira, and E. Quel) for providing sun photometer data. Global Land cover product is available at http://landcover.usgs.gov/global_climatology.php and IBGE land cover at ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/informacoes_ambientais/. We also thank Andrew Sayer and the anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments.
Image Processing Division, Brazilian Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Remote Sensing Division, Brazilian Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
Recommended Citation:
Martins V.S.,Lyapustin A.,de Carvalho L.A.S.,et al. Validation of high-resolution MAIAC aerosol product over South America[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,2017-01-01,122(14)