Validation of Two MODIS Aerosols Algorithms with SKYNET and Prospects for Future Climate Satellites Such as the GCOM-C/SGLI

Table 1

Error analyses showing the root mean square error (RMSE) between the ground data and the satellite derived data for the MODIS-GLI algorithm (GLI RMSE) and the MODIS-NASA algorithm (NASA RMSE), and the simple differences between the ground data and the MODIS-GLI (GLI Dif), then the MODIS-NASA (NASA Dif) satellites’ algorithms.

	AE	AOT	AE	AOT
Sites	RMSE GLI	RMSE GLI	RMSE NASA	RMSE NASA
Fukue	0.411	0.214	0.321	0.138
Hedo	0.535	0.234	0.388	0.147
Miyako	0.566	0.233	0.384	0.089
Sites	Dif GLI	Dif GLI	Dif NASA	Dif NASA
Fukue	0.181	−0.194	0.065	0.009
Hedo	0.248	−0.203	0.150	−0.010
Miyako	0.145	−0.202	0.086	−0.008