Accurate aerosol and visibility forecasts are critical to both civilian and military applications. To improve the Navy's electro-optical propagation forecast capability, the world's first operational aerosol assimilation model was developed for improving the short and long-term forecasts of NAAPS through the assimilation of the over-water MODIS aerosol products. In this project, the capability of over-land aerosol data assimilation was studied, a multi-sensor data assimilation technique was evaluated, and a prototype ...