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Retrieving aerosol in a cloudy environment: aerosol product availability as a function of spatial resolution

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Figure 2 shows an example of three different cloud masks applied to the same MODIS image in a situation where heavy aerosol coincides with a cloud field
Fig. 2. Terra MODIS image from 12:00 UTC 2 July 2010 showing (upper left) true color image of heavy dust spreading over the  At-lantic from northern Africa
Fig. 3. Illustration of MODIS aerosol cloud mask spatial variabil- variabil-ity test. The algorithm identifies a set of 3 × 3 0.5 km pixels and calculates standard deviation of the reflectance of those 9 pixels
Table 1. The four cloud masks mentioned in this study. Only the MODIS aerosol and GOES-R cloud masks undergo analysis.
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