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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol_cci): Level 3 aerosol products from AATSR (ensemble product), Version 2.6

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2020-05-05
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2020-08-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 3.74K Files | 3GB
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 Level 3 daily, monthly and yearly gridded aerosol products from the AATSR instrument on the ENVISAT satellite. The data is an uncertainty-weighted ensemble of the outputs of three separate algorithms (the SU, ADV, and ORAC algorithms.) This product is version 2.6 of the ensemble product. Data is provided for the period 2002 to 2012. In the early period, it also contains data from the ATSR-2 instrument on the ERS-2 satellite. A separate ATSR-2 product covering the period 1995-2001 is also available, and together these form a continuous timeseries from 1995-2012.

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

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team; de Leeuw, G.; Popp, T. (2020): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol_cci): Level 3 aerosol products from AATSR (ensemble product), Version 2.6. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c183044b88734442b6d37f5c4f6b0092
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI

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://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.
Data Quality:
As provided by the CCI Aerosol project team
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 Aerosol CCI paper in AMT
 Product User Guide
 The ESA Aerosol CCI Project
 ESA CCI Programme Website
 Aerosol CCI Phase 2 final report

Process overview

  • long_name: Aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_depth_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: Aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • units: #
  • long_name: Uncertainty Ensemble
  • standard_name: uncertainty
  • var_id: AOD550_UNCERTAINTY_ENSEMBLE
  • long_name: number of measurements per gridcell
  • standard_name: NMEAS
  • var_id: NMEAS

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: Latitude
  • var_id: Latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: Longitude
  • var_id: Longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2012-04-08T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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