Machine learning-based assessment of aerosol optical depth over Ghana, West Africa using MODIS satellite data

• Jesse Gilbert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gilbert, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Mary Jessie Adjei, Caleb Mensah, Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6525-417X

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• Jeffrey N. A. Aryee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gilbert, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Mary Jessie Adjei, Caleb Mensah, Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jeff.jay8845@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Land and Spatial Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4481-1441

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• Mary Jessie Adjei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gilbert, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Mary Jessie Adjei, Caleb Mensah, Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Caleb Mensah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gilbert, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Mary Jessie Adjei, Caleb Mensah, Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, School of Geosciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9730-3099

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• Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gilbert, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Mary Jessie Adjei, Caleb Mensah, Kwesi T. Quagraine

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, College of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6452-1847

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