Abstract
The reality of aerosol loading is synonymous to climate change. According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) imagery, aerosol deposition over West is very high compared to other parts of the world. The danger of aerosol loading is grave when in excess and little effort is made by government in the West Africa region to embark on ground measurement of aerosol optical depth (AOD). In this paper, the satellite measurement (Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer) was used to obtain the aerosol optical over the research area. The computational analysis was carried out using the MATLAB software. The percentage of increase of aerosols loading was high in 2001, 2005 and 2011 that was 5.7%, 24.5%, 8% and 11.1%. Cumulatively increase of aerosol loading within 15 years was 11.7%. It is therefore recommended that government in the region should be more committed to ground measurement of AOD to ascertain the state of air pollution in the lower troposphere.
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