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Firstly, the overall feature of AOD over the Tibetan Plateau was investigated, including the seasonal diversities of AODS (the sum of AODs from all aerosol layers), and A (the amounts of aerosol layers). Then we deeply studied the characteristics of AOD within the lowest aerosol layer over TP, including the seasonal variations of AOD1 (The AOD of the first aerosol layer), HB1 (the height of the first aerosol layer base), TL1 (the thickness of the first aerosol layer) and PAOD1 (The AOD proportion of the first aerosol layer). The AODS was generally low (&lt;0.2) in the main body of TP in each season. The value of A was lower (~1\u20131.5) than other areas around the TP, indicating that the main body of TP generally had only one aerosol layer. The HTT (height of the highest aerosol layer top) was higher in spring (~8 km) and summer (~9 km), and lower in fall (~6.5 km) and winter (~6.5 km). The PAOD1 was high in each season except spring. The high PAOD1 values (&gt;0.9) indicated that the aerosols were mainly concentrated in the lowest layer in summer, fall, and winter in the main body of TP. In spring, the PAOD1 value was relatively low (~0.7\u20130.85) and the distribution exhibited obvious differences between the southern (~0.85) and the northern (~0.75) TP, which appeared to be consistent with A. Most of the aerosol loads in summer were concentrated in the lowest aerosol layer with high aerosol loads. Most of the aerosol loads in fall and winter were also concentrated in the lowest aerosol layer, but with low aerosol loads.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10050696","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,3]],"date-time":"2018-05-03T03:20:27Z","timestamp":1525317627000},"page":"696","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["The Characteristics of the Aerosol Optical Depth within the Lowest Aerosol Layer over the Tibetan Plateau from 2007 to 2014"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Miao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environmental Science and Tourism, Nanyang Normal University, Wolong Road No.1638, Nanyang 473061, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7783-5725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lunche","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1022-3999","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Bilal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Science, Nanjing University of Information Science &amp; Technology, Nanjing 2100444, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Ziyue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environmental Science and Tourism, Nanyang Normal University, Wolong Road No.1638, Nanyang 473061, China"}]},{"given":"Guangmeng","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environmental Science and Tourism, Nanyang Normal University, Wolong Road No.1638, Nanyang 473061, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1671","DOI":"10.1126\/science.105978","article-title":"Oblique stepwise rise and growth of the Tibet Plateau","volume":"294","author":"Tapponnier","year":"2001","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12841","DOI":"10.5194\/acp-11-12841-2011","article-title":"Accumulation of aerosols over the Indo-Gangetic plains and southern slopes of the Himalayas: Distribution, properties and radiative effects during the 2009 pre-monsoon season","volume":"11","author":"Gautam","year":"2011","journal-title":"Atmos. 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