Selected data for the article titled "Estimation of Nighttime Aerosol Optical Depths Using Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Longwave Radiances"

This is an excerpt of the data used in this article. Due to the fact that AIRS and ERA5 have other data exceeding 2T, only some data has been selected as examples for uploading. If needed, you can download it yourself at the link provided by Data Availability Statement. Data Availability Statement The Aqua/AIRS L2 cloud-cleared infrared radiances dataset can be accessed from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) website at https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/AIRS2CCF_7.0/summary?keywords=AIRS2CCF.7.0. For the MODIS aerosol optical depth (AOD) data, it is available on the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) website at https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/61/MOD04_L2. The yearly data for MODIS land cover type can be downloaded from the MODIS Land Products site at https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/products/MCD12C1/. To obtain ERA-5 hourly surface temperature data, it can be obtained from the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-ERA-5-land?tab=overview. Similarly, ERA-5 hourly data of pressure levels can be accessed on the CDS website at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-ERA-5-pressure-levels?tab=overview. For AERONET Lunar AOD, it is available on the AERONET website at https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/webtool_aod_v3_lunar. The topography data from ETOPO2022 can be downloaded from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) website at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/etopo-global-relief-model. Lastly, the CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol Profiles can be obtained from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) website at https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO. The MODTRAN code is available on http://modtran.spectral.com/. The HITRAN can be accessed from https://hitran.org/.