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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-1987</article-id>
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<article-title>Twin Eyes in the Sky: Deep Learning-Based AOD Enhancement Using GOES-East and GOES-West</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Porcheddu</surname>
<given-names>Andrea</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kolehmainen</surname>
<given-names>Ville</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5621-795X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lähivaara</surname>
<given-names>Timo</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Levy</surname>
<given-names>Robert</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8933-5303</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shi</surname>
<given-names>Yingxi Rona</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5488-0777</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Hai</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lipponen</surname>
<given-names>Antti</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6902-9974</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Science and Technology Corporation at NOAA, College Park, MD, USA</addr-line>
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<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Finnish Meteorological Institute, Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>04</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>35</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Andrea Porcheddu et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>High spatio-temporal resolution aerosol monitoring is critical to understand and mitigate air pollution and climate change. In this context, geostationary satellite instruments can be extremely beneficial, allowing fine-grained temporal characterization of aerosols over large regions. In this study, we combine data from the geostationary instruments Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on-board GOES-East and GOES-West, using Deep Learning methods to post-process NASA Dark Target ABI AOD and NOAA ABI AOD products and improve their accuracy and spatial resolution. We deploy a Transformer Encoder architecture, and compare it to a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) architecture predicting at single time step, showing how exploiting the temporal patterns in geostationary daily observations leads to improved accuracy and generalization in the post-process correction. Additionally, we show that further improvement can be obtained combining multi-view angles from different (though very similar) geostationary satellites. Our region of interest is the Contiguous United States (CONUS) in the years 2020&amp;ndash;2022.</p>
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