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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol monthly products from GOMOS (AERGOM algorithm), Version 2.1

Latest Data Update: 2015-07-15
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2015-12-08
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 13 Files | 63MB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

The ESA Climate Change Initiative Aerosol project has produced a number of global aerosol Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products from a set of European satellite instruments with different characteristics.

This dataset comprises the Level 3 aerosol monthly products from GOMOS, using the AERGOM algorithm, version 2.1 and was produced by BIRA (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy).

The data are stored as monthly averages and standard deviations of a range of aerosol variables, on global 2.5 degree x 10 degree latitutude/longitude grids, and in NetCDF format. The horizontal resolution is 0.5km.

The variables included are: Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom coefficient, extinction profile.

For further details about these data products please see the linked documentation.

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team; de Leeuw, G.; Popp, T. (2015): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol monthly products from GOMOS (AERGOM algorithm), Version 2.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/67a411e3fa24477eab54500519af4514
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI

Details

Previous Info:

2016-07-28 A new version (v2.19) of this dataset is available from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/91a7029627754d60912e58255b686836 2016-07-28 A new version (v2.19) of this dataset is available from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/91a7029627754d60912e58255b686836

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
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://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_aerosol_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Aerosol project team and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted.

Related Documents

 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Description
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Overview
 ESA CCI Aerosol project website
 Aerosol CCI paper in AMT
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website

Process overview

  • long_name: Aerosols
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H316
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Aerosols
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Aerosols, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H316
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air
  • long_name: Angstrom exponent (AOD) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm]
  • var_id: Angstrom_AOD_400_800
  • names: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air, Angstrom exponent (AOD) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm]
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Angstrom exponent (AOD) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm] associated error
  • standard_name: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air standard_error
  • var_id: Angstrom_AOD_400_800_uncertainty
  • names: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air standard_error, Angstrom exponent (AOD) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm] associated error
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air
  • long_name: Angstrom exponent (EXT) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm]
  • var_id: Angstrom_EXT_400_800
  • names: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air, Angstrom exponent (EXT) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm]
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air standard_error
  • long_name: Angstrom exponent (EXT) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm] associated error
  • var_id: Angstrom_EXT_400_800_uncertainty
  • names: angstrom_exponent_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air standard_error, Angstrom exponent (EXT) of stratospheric aerosols for lambda=[450nm - 756nm] associated error
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Number of observations used to calculate the mean stratospheric aerosol extinction (550nm)
  • standard_name: volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol number_of_observations
  • var_id: Aerosol_extinction_Ndata550
  • names: Number of observations used to calculate the mean stratospheric aerosol extinction (550nm), volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol number_of_observations
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Number of observations used to calculate the mean stratospheric aerosol optical depth (550nm)
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol number_of_observations
  • var_id: aod_Ndata550
  • names: Number of observations used to calculate the mean stratospheric aerosol optical depth (550nm), atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol number_of_observations
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
  • long_name: Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC) occurrence frequency
  • var_id: PSC_occ
  • names: cloud_area_fraction, Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC) occurrence frequency
  • standard_name: altitude
  • var_id: alt
  • units: km
  • long_name: altitude
  • names: altitude
  • units: km
  • standard_name: tropopause_altitude
  • long_name: median tropopause height used for the integration in the stratosphere
  • var_id: Tropopause_height
  • names: tropopause_altitude, median tropopause height used for the integration in the stratosphere
  • units: km-1
  • long_name: stratospheric aerosol extinction (550nm) associated error
  • standard_name: volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol standard_error
  • var_id: Aerosol_extinction_uncertainty550
  • names: volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol standard_error, stratospheric aerosol extinction (550nm) associated error
  • units: km-1
  • long_name: stratospheric aerosol extinction at 550nm (mean of the [Q25-Q75] distribution)
  • standard_name: volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: Aerosol_extinction550
  • names: stratospheric aerosol extinction at 550nm (mean of the [Q25-Q75] distribution), volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • units: 1
  • long_name: stratospheric aerosol optical depth (550nm) associated error
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol standard_error
  • var_id: aod_uncertainty550
  • names: stratospheric aerosol optical depth (550nm) associated error, atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol standard_error
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: stratospheric aerosol optical depth at 550nm (mean of the [Q25-Q75] distribution)
  • var_id: aod550
  • names: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol, stratospheric aerosol optical depth at 550nm (mean of the [Q25-Q75] distribution)

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • names: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • names: longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-03-31T23:00:00
End time:
2012-05-03T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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