EVALUATION OF MERIS AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR NATIONAL ANDREGIONAL AIR QUALITY IN AUSTRIA

摘要

The Umweltbundesamt (Austrian Federal Environment Agency, FEA) is currently evaluating the potential of satelliterndata for assessing national and regional air quality. Within the framework of the GSE project PROMOTE, Service LevelrnAgreements (SLA) were signed between the Umweltbundesamt and various data providers. In this paper, the ESArnstandard MERIS aerosol product, provided by ACRI-ST in near-real time, is evaluated. Data are also providedrntemporally aggregated for air quality reporting. In this paper, we present a first evaluation of ENVISAT/MERIS aerosolrnproducts during the period March to August 2005 and comparisons to data from the in-situ ground based monitoringrnnetwork.