The 2015 Indonesian biomass-burning season with extensive peat fires: Remote sensing measurements of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from AERONET and MODIS satellite data

Thomas F Eck1,2, Brent Holben3, David Matthew Giles4, Alexander Smirnov4, Ilya Slutsker4, Aliaksandr Siniuk4, Joel Schafer5, Mikhail G Sorokin3, Jeffrey S. Reid6, Andrew M Sayer7, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu3, Robert C Levy8, Alexei Lyapustin3, Yujie Wang9, Muhammad Arif Rahman10, Soo Chin Liew11, Santo V Salinas Cortijo11, Tan Li11, Daniel Kalbermatter11, Kwoh Leong Keong11, Muhammad Elifant12, Fanni Aditya12, Maznorian Mohamad13, Mastura Mahmud14, Tan Kok Chong15, Hwee San Lim16, Yeap Eng Choon16, Gumilang Deranadyan17 and Sheila Dewi Ayu Kusumaningtyas17, (1)Universities Space Research Association, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)USRA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (7)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (9)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (10)Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics, Palangka Raya, Indonesia, (11)National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (12)BMKG Staklim Siantan, Pontianak, Indonesia, (13)Malaysian Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, (14)Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia, (15)Stesen Meteorologi Kuching, Kuching, Malaysia, (16)University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, (17)Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Jakarta, Indonesia