Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-925-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-925-2018
Research article
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16 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2018

Collocation mismatch uncertainties in satellite aerosol retrieval validation

Timo H. Virtanen, Pekka Kolmonen, Larisa Sogacheva, Edith Rodríguez, Giulia Saponaro, and Gerrit de Leeuw

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Short summary
We study the collocation mismatch uncertainty related to validating coarse-resolution satellite-based aerosol data against point-like ground based measurements. We use the spatial variability in the satellite data to estimate the upper limit for the uncertainty and study the effect of sampling parameters in the validation. We find that accounting for the collocation mismatch uncertainty increases the fraction of consistent data in the validation.