Development and Assessment of the Sand Dust Prediction Model by Utilizing Microwave-Based Satellite Soil Moisture and Reanalysis Datasets in East Asian Desert Areas

Figure 5

Temporal pattern of observed AOD from MODIS and modeled AOD (exponential model based on SMOS, AMSR2, and GLDAS soil moisture and GLDAS wind speed product) for the year 2015. (a) Observed AOD versus modeled AOD based on SMOS soil moisture, (b) observed AOD versus modeled AOD based on AMSR2 soil moisture model, (c) observed AOD versus modeled AOD based on GLDAS soil moisture products after matching UTC time with local times of SMOS and AMSR2, and (d) statistical comparison of 1~5 days composite soil moisture models AOD with observed AOD from MODIS.

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