Assessment of urban aerosol pollution over the Moscow megacity by the MAIAC aerosol product

Zhdanova, Ekaterina Y.; Chubarova, Natalia Y.; Lyapustin, Alexei I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-877-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-877-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-877-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

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21 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 21 Feb 2020

Assessment of urban aerosol pollution over the Moscow megacity by the MAIAC aerosol product

Ekaterina Y. Zhdanova, Natalia Y. Chubarova, and Alexei I. Lyapustin

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RC1: 'Review comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 05 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to referee #3', Ekaterina Zhdanova, 29 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Assessment of urban aerosol pollution over Moscow megacity by MAIAC aerosol product” by Ekaterina Y. Zhdanova et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Answer to referee #1', Ekaterina Zhdanova, 29 Dec 2019

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ED: Publish as is (07 Jan 2020) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Ekaterina Zhdanova on behalf of the Authors (15 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We estimated the distribution of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) with a spatial resolution of 1 km over the Moscow megacity using the MAIAC satellite aerosol product from May to September over the years 2000–2017. We revealed that the MAIAC product is a reliable instrument for assessing the spatial features of urban aerosol pollution and its temporal dynamics. The local aerosol effect is about 0.02–0.04 in AOT in the visible spectral range over the Moscow megacity.