ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution  dust optical depth data set

Gkikas, Antonis; Proestakis, Emmanouil; Amiridis, Vassilis; Kazadzis, Stelios; Di Tomaso, Enza; Tsekeri, Alexandra; Marinou, Eleni; Hatzianastassiou, Nikos; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-309-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-309-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Special issue:

Dust aerosol measurements, modeling and multidisciplinary...

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-309-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

| Highlight paper

|

15 Jan 2021

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 15 Jan 2021

ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution dust optical depth data set

Antonis Gkikas, Emmanouil Proestakis, Vassilis Amiridis, Stelios Kazadzis, Enza Di Tomaso, Alexandra Tsekeri, Eleni Marinou, Nikos Hatzianastassiou, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-309-2021-supplement

Data sets

ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): A global fine resolution dust optical depth dataset Antonis Gkikas, Emmanouil Proestakis, Vassilis Amiridis, Stelios Kazadzis, Enza Di Tomaso, Alexandra Tsekeri, Eleni Marinou, Nikos Hatzianastassiou, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4244106

Short summary

We present the development of the MIDAS (ModIs Dust AeroSol) data set, providing daily dust optical depth (DOD; 550 nm) at a global scale and fine spatial resolution (0.1° x 0.1°) over a 15-year period (2003–2017). It has been developed via the synergy of MODIS-Aqua and MERRA-2 data, while CALIOP and AERONET retrievals are used for its assessment. MIDAS upgrades existing dust observational capabilities, and it is suitable for dust climatological studies, model evaluation, and data assimilation.