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Publications Citing MERRA-2 Data
List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using MERRA-2 data.
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| Aerosol classification under non-clear sky conditions based on geostationary satellite FY-4A and machine learning models | Chen, Bin, Ye, Qia, Zhou, Xingzhao, Song, Zhihao, Ren, Yuxiang | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| Aerosol effects on liquid cloud microphysical properties in south China: Landocean contrasts | Wang, Yuan, Zhao, Pengguo, Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Peiwen | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought | Chen, Shuli, Stark, Scott C., Nobre, Antonio Donato, Cuartas, Luz Adriana, de Jesus Amore, Diogo, Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia, Smith, Marielle N., Chitra-Tarak, Rutuja, Ko, Hongseok, Nelson, Bruce W., Saleska, Scott R. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature |
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| An AERONET-based methodology to retrieve black carbon light absorption and comparison with MERRA-2 data | Dehkhoda, Naghmeh, Shin, Juseon, Joo, Sohee, Sim, Juhyeon, Noh, Youngmin | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| A Machine Learning Approach to Retrieving Aerosol Optical Depth Using Solar Radiation Measurements | Logothetis, Stavros-Andreas, Salamalikis, Vasileios, Kazantzidis, Andreas | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| Variation in Glacier Albedo on the Tibetan Plateau between 2001 and 2022 Based on MODIS Data | Liu, Ping, Wu, Guangjian, Cao, Bo, Zhao, Xuanru, Chen, Yuxuan | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0) | ||
| Uncertain effect of component differences on land evapotranspiration | Jiao, Ping, Hu, Keke, Ling, Hongbo, Tian, Changyan, Hu, Shunjun | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) | ||
| Under a not so white sky: visual impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection | Lemon, Ansar, Keith, David W, Albers, Steve | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness | ||
| Three-dimensional structure and transport flux of springtime smoke aerosols over the Indochina Peninsula | Liu, Yurun, Gui, Ke, Chen, Quanliang, Feng, Liangliang, Cai, Hongke, Zhang, Xutao, Yao, Wenrui, Zhao, Hengheng, Shang, Nanxuan, Li, Lei, Zheng, Yu, Che, Huizheng | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), Surface Pressure, Pressure Thickness, Relative Humidity, Air Mass/Density | ||
| The spatiotemporal and dependency analysis of selected meteorological parameters and normalized difference vegetation index with aerosol optical depth over east Africa | Khamala, Geoffrey W., Makokha, John W., Boiyo, Richard | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0) | ||
| Trajectory Reconstruction of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator | Karlgaard, Chris D., Deshmukh, Rohan, Dutta, Soumyo, Korzun, Ashley M., Hollis, Brian R. | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Trend Analysis for Different Types of Aerosols in Conjugation with Temperatures for the Indian Region During the Post-monsoon Season (19802019) | Yadav, Harsh, Mehta, Manu, Jain, Shruti, Singh, Sandhya, Bhandari, Srishti, Nihalani, Seema | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds |
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| Social Cost of Lifestyle Adaptation: Air Pollution and Outdoor Physical Exercise | Fan, Yichun | Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature | ||
| Satellite or ground-based measurements for air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, O3) data and their health hazards: which is most accurate and why? | Mushtaq, Zainab, Bangotra, Pargin, Gautam, Alok Sagar, Sharma, Manish, Suman, Gautam, Sneha, Singh, Karan, Kumar, Yogesh, Jain, Poonam | Nitrogen Dioxide, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) |
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| Satellite-based atmospheric characterization for sites of interest in millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy | Valeria, L., Martinez-Ledesma, M., Reeves, R. | Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Pressure Thickness, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Fraction, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Seasonal and geographic viability of high altitude balloon navigation | Brown, David, Linz, Marianna, Leidich, Jared | Geopotential Height, Specific Humidity, Relative Humidity, Atmospheric Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed | ||
| Sensitivity Analysis of the Inverse Distance Weighting and Bicubic Spline Smoothing Models for MERRA-2 Reanalysis PM2. 5 Series in the Persian Gulf Region | Barbulescu, Alina, Saliba, Youssef | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0) | ||
| Sensitivity, Uncertainty, Information Content, and Channel Selection for Hyperspectral Reflective Solar Retrievals of Cirrus Cloud Properties | Mast, Jeffrey C., Yang, Ping | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Pressure Thickness, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Fraction, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, Total Precipitable Water, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Tropospheric Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Air Mass/Density |
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| Retrieval and spatiotemporal variation of total suspended matter concentration using a MODIS-derived hue angle in the coastal waters of Qinhuangdao, China | Wang, Lin, Wang, Xiang, Meng, Qinghui, Chen, Yanlong, Wang, Xinxin, Jiang, Lingling, Shang, Yuhao | Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Geopotential Height | ||
| Satellite data geoprocessing to estimate PM2. 5 over the Megalopolis of Central Mexico | Mora-Ramirez, Marco Antonio, Martinez-Luna, Edgar, Cruz-Nunez, Xochitl | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), Heat Flux, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction |
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| Spatio-temporal patterns and trends in MODIS-retrieved radiative forcing by snow impurities over the Western US from 2001 to 2022 | Jensen, Anna S, Rittger, Karl, Raleigh, Mark S | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| Spatio-temporal variation of aerosol loading and planetary boundary layer height before, during and after COVID-19 lockdown over the major cities in India | Salunke, Amruta Dipchand, Londhe, Digambar S., Katpatal, Yashwant B. | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Atmospheric Ozone, Reflectance, Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction |
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| Spatial variation, sources, and trajectory of black carbon in the South Sumatra Region of Indonesia using MERRA-2 reanalysis data | Rendana, Muhammad, Novia, Novia, Sari, Tuti Indah, Yusuf, Maulana, Idarwati | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0) | ||
| Simulation and Assessment of Episodic Dust Storms in Eastern Saudi Arabia Using HYSPLIT Trajectory Model and Satellite Observations | Alzaid, Abdulrahman Suhail, Anil, Ismail, Aga, Omer | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| StructMesh: A storage framework for serverless computing continuum | Carrizales-Espinoza, Diana, Sanchez-Gallegos, Dante D., Gonzalez-Compean, J.L., Carretero, Jesus | Air Temperature, Precipitation Rate, 24 Hour Maximum Temperature, 24 Hour Minimum Temperature |