This dataset consists of land-global MODIS Aqua Dark Target aerosol product (MYD04_L2) collocated with OCO-2 daily XCO2 Lite files (V10r) for five years (2015-2019). The data is used to evaluate the effect of aerosols on OCO-2 XCO2 retrieval in the manuscript: "A global perspective on CO2 satellite observations in high AOD conditions" by Virtanen et al. The Matlab scripts used to create the figures in the manuscript are included.

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