Table 4.

Statistics of the matchup of the CE318 and VIIRS_ML AOD at 550 nm over each site during 2 May 2012 - 31 March 2014.

VIIRS_ML QF	Site	N	MB	RMSE	R	%EE	Slope	y int
	Beijing	292	0.26	0.33	0.94	21.2	1.19	0.18
QF>0	XiangHe	340	0.09	0.20	0.97	70.6	1.26	−0.03
	Xinglong	185	0.03	0.13	0.89	62.2	1.07	0.02
	Beijing	263	0.26	0.33	0.91	22.8	1.14	0.20
QF>1	XiangHe	322	0.08	0.20	0.97	72.0	1.26	−0.04
	Xinglong	170	0.03	0.12	0.92	64.1	1.19	−0.01
	Beijing	227	0.28	0.36	0.89	19.8	1.08	0.25
QF=3	XiangHe	302	0.07	0.19	0.97	73.2	1.26	−0.04
	Xinglong	154	0.01	0.11	0.92	66.9	1.15	−0.02