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This was due to a high surface reflectance and heavy aerosol loading, especially in winter, when a high cloud cover fraction and the frequent occurrence of haze events reduce the number of effective satellite observations. The retrieval of the AOD from limited satellite data is much needed and important for further aerosol investigations. In this paper, we propose an improved AOD retrieval method for 500 m MODIS data, which is based on an extended surface reflectance estimation scheme and dynamic aerosol models derived from ground-based sun-photometric observations. This improved method was applied to retrieve AOD during heavy aerosol loading and effectively complements the scarcity of AOD in correspondence with urban surface of a higher spatial resolution. The validation results showed that the retrieved AOD was consistent with MODIS DT AOD (R = ~0.87; RMSE = ~0.11) and ground measurements (R = ~0.89; RMSE = ~0.15) from both the Terra and the Aqua satellite. The method can be easily applied to different urban environments affected by air pollution and contributes to the research on aerosol.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11192218","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,23]],"date-time":"2019-09-23T11:02:00Z","timestamp":1569236520000},"page":"2218","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Retrieval of 500 m Aerosol Optical Depths from MODIS Measurements over Urban Surfaces under Heavy Aerosol Loading Conditions in Winter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0938-4202","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shikuan","family":"Jin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yingying","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"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"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3482-6460","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oleg","family":"Dubovik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNRS, UMR 8518-LOA-Laboratoire d\u2019Optique Atmosph\u00e9rique, Univ. 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