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Dataset

 

Invisible Tracks: Collocation of wind-advected ship locations and shipping emissions with data from the MODIS cloud product

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2022-05-23
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2022-05-20
DOI Publication Date: 2022-05-23
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 73 Files | 611GB

Abstract

This dataset contains data from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) cloud product, collocated to wind-advected ship locations and shipping emissions. Most importantly, it includes effective droplet radii, calculated droplet number concentration, liquid water path, and cloud optical depth for locations where clouds have been polluted by shipping and to either side of a ship trajectory. Cloud data in the trajectory is labelled with the variable name only, data on either side additionally with [property]_1 and [property]_3 for the western and eastern side, respectively. The data is ungridded and comes in the form of csv files. It covers the period of 2014-2019.

The dataset is the product of three data sources: AIS data giving ship locations, ERA5 winds used to advect the emissions up to the time of the Aqua and Terra overpasses, as well as the level-2 cloud product MOD06.

This data was collected for the study of shipping aerosols' effect on marine liquid clouds, in particular when the emissions do not produce a satellite-visible ship track, which could be hand-logged.

Citable as:  Manshausen, P.; Watson-Parris, D.; Christensen, M.; Jalkanen, J.-P.; Stier, P. (2022): Invisible Tracks: Collocation of wind-advected ship locations and shipping emissions with data from the MODIS cloud product. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 23 May 2022. doi:10.5285/2d0f8bb3927b4f75ae75276705858f68. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2d0f8bb3927b4f75ae75276705858f68
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: cloud droplet, ship, MODIS

Details

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

Data Quality:
Data are as given by the data provider, no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
File Format:
Data are in CSV format

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Computation Element: 1

Title Derivation of Invisible Tracks: Collocation of wind-advected ship locations and shipping emissions with data from the MODIS cloud product
Abstract The dataset contains data from the MODIS cloud product, collocated to wind-advected ship locations and shipping emissions. It is the product of three data sources: AIS data giving ship locations, ERA5 winds used to advect the emissions up to the time of the Aqua and Terra overpasses, as well as the level-2 cloud product MOD06.
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Output Description

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Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2014-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
50.0000°
 
-80.0000°
 
20.0000°
 
-50.0000°