Nighttime aerosol optical depth retrieval from VIIRS moonlight observations, and its application for surface PM2.5 estimate for rural areas

Meng Zhou, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Jun Wang, the University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, & Center of Global and Regional and Environmental Research, & Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States