Evaluation of Regional Climatic Model Simulated Aerosol Optical Properties over South Africa Using Ground-Based and Satellite Observations

Figure 2

The comparison of RegCM4-aerosol model simulated monthly-averaged column-integrated aerosol extinction optical depth (at 550 nm—blue solid line) with its corresponding observations derived from MISR (at 558 nm—gray dotted line) and AERONET (at 500 nm—black solid line denoting the values and standard deviation), at Skukuza, South Africa.