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Satellite Retrievials
Area of Interest
The effective radius retrieved from the satellite is a mean over an area that extends to the north and south of Grand Forks 100 km and 100 km to the west. Giving a range of latitude from about 47 degrees and 1 minute(47.016667) to 48 degrees and 50 minutes(48.833333). The range of longitudes is 97 degrees and 3 minutes (97.05) to 98 degrees and 22 minutes (98.366667).
MODIS Atmosphere Team Global Browse Imagery
Has the key aerosol and cloud products for all recently reprocessed MODIS Aqua Collection 6 atmosphere team products. Terra Collection 6 reprocessing hasn’t started yet but should be getting close. Note that you can rotate the global projection and zoom in up to a 5 km sample resolution.
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/index.html
Interesting Products are: Cloud Effective Radius Cloud Top Temperature Aerosol Optical Depth Deep Blue Aerosol Optical Depth
NASA WorldView
The site includes true and false color MODIS imagery along with MODIS Dark Target aerosol (Rob’s product) and cloud-top temperature retrievals. Soon it will be populated with all of the core MODIS Collection 6 atmosphere products, including Deep Blue aerosol (Andy) and the cloud phase, optical thickness, effective radius, and water path datasets Kerry, Tom, and I work on.