Modern Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Aerosol Reanalysis (MERRAero)

Documentation

  • File Specification: This document has a comprehensive list of datasets available, as well as description of the horizontal and vertical grids. [ Link ]

Publications

  • Buchard, V., da Silva, A. M., Randles, C. A., Colarco, P., Ferrare, R., Hair, J., Hostetler, C., Tackett, J., and D. Winker: Evaluation of the surface PM2.5 in Version 1 of the NASA \ MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis over the United States, Atmospheric Environment, 125, 100-111, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.11.004, 2016.
  • Buchard, V., da Silva, A. M., Colarco, P. R., Darmenov, A., Randles, C. A., Govindaraju, R., Torres, O., Campbell, J., and Spurr, R.: Using the OMI aerosol index and absorption aerosol optical depth to evaluate the NASA MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 5743-5760, doi:10.5194/acp-15-5743-2015, 2015.
  • Colarco, P., A. da Silva, M. Chin, and T. Diehl (2010), Online simulations of global aerosol distributions in the NASA GEOS‐4 model and comparisons to satellite and ground-based aerosol optical depth, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D14207, doi:10.1029/2009JD012820.
  • Colarco, P. R., E. P. Nowottnick, C. A. Randles, B. Yi, P. Yang, K.-M. Kim, J. A. Smith, and C. G. Bardeen (2014), Impact of radiatively interactive dust aerosols in the NASA GEOS-5 climate model: Sensitivity to dust particle shape and refractive index, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 753–786, doi:10.1002/2013JD020046.
  • Pavel Kishcha, Arlindo da Silva, Boris Starobinets, Charles Long, Olga Kalashnikova & Pinhas Alpert, (2015), Saharan dust as a causal factor of hemispheric asymmetry in aerosols and cloud cover over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36:13, 3423-3445, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1060646
  • Kishcha, P., A.M. da Silva, B. Starobinets and P. Alpert (2013), Air pollution over Northwest Bay of Bengal in the early post-monsoon season: Evaluating the NASA MERRAero assimilated datasets, J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/ 2013JD020328.
  • Rienecker, M. M., M. J. Suarez, R. Gelaro, R. Todling, J. Bacmeister, E. Liu, M. G. Bosilovich, S. D. Schubert, L. Takacs, G.-K. Kim , S. Bloom, J. Chen, D. Collins, A. Conaty, A. da Silva, W. Gu, J. Joiner, R. D. Koster, R. Lucchesi, A. Molod, T. Owens, S. Pawson, P. Pegion, C. R. Redder, R. Reichle, F. R. Robertson, A. G. Ruddick, M. Sienkiewicz, and J. Woollen, 2011. MERRA - NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications. J. Climate, 24, 3624-3648. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00015.1.
  • Yi, Bingqi, P. Yang, A. Dessler and A.M. da Silva, (2014), Response of aerosol direct radiative effect to the East Asian summer monsoon, IEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, 12, 597-600.