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Intensive use of sulfur-rich coal for heating and cooking coupled with an atmospheric inversion amplified by the mid-continental Siberian anticyclone drive these high levels of air pollution. Ground-based air quality monitoring in Mongolia is sparse, making use of satellite observations of aerosol optical depth (AOD) instrumental for characterizing air pollution in the region. We harnessed data from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Version 23 (V23) aerosol product, which provides total column AOD and component-particle optical properties for 74 different aerosol mixtures at 4.4 km spatial resolution globally. To test the performance of the V23 product over Mongolia, we compared values of MISR AOD with spatially and temporally matched AOD from the Dalanzadgad AERONET site and find good agreement (correlation r = 0.845, and root-mean-square deviation RMSD = 0.071). Over UB, exploratory principal component analysis indicates that the 74 MISR AOD mixture profiles consisted primarily of small, spherical, non-absorbing aerosols in the wintertime, and contributions from medium and large dust particles in the summertime. Comparing several machine learning methods for relating the 74 MISR mixtures to ground-level pollutants, including particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 \u03bcm (    PM  2.5     ) and 10 \u03bcm (    PM 10    ), as well as sulfur dioxide (    SO 2    ), a proxy for sulfate particles, we find that Support Vector Machine regression consistently has the highest predictive performance with median test     R 2     for     PM  2.5     ,     PM 10    , and     SO 2     equal to 0.461, 0.063, and 0.508, respectively. These results indicate that the high-dimensional MISR AOD mixture set can provide reliable predictions of air pollution and can distinguish dominant particle types in the UB region.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10081317","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,20]],"date-time":"2018-08-20T11:23:06Z","timestamp":1534764186000},"page":"1317","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Using Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Aerosol Mixture Properties for Air Quality Assessment in Mongolia"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3802-8829","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meredith","family":"Franklin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9112-2470","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Khang","family":"Chau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1330-1529","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olga V.","family":"Kalashnikova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1374-5074","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael J.","family":"Garay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5038-9144","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Temuulen","family":"Enebish","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2208-2062","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meytar","family":"Sorek-Hamer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2016). 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