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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 daily mean aerosol products (IASI_LMD algorithm), Version 2.1

Latest Data Update: 2020-06-10
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Working
Publication Date:
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 5.5K Files | 216GB
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.

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team (9999): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 daily mean aerosol products (IASI_LMD algorithm), Version 2.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/16edf66b153745e286f4f591eb08c9fa
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI

Details

Previous Info:
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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.
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 netCDF formatted.

Related Documents

 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Description
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Aerosol project website
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Overview

Process overview

  • units: None
  • var_id: cloud_flag
  • long_name: Cloud flag: no cloud (0) or cloud (1)
  • units: None
  • var_id: dust_flag
  • long_name: Dust flag: no dust (0) or dust (1)
  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 0.55 microns
  • var_id: Daod550
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosolDust f
  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 10 microns
  • var_id: Daod10000
  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 11 microns
  • var_id: Daod11000
  • units: degrees_north
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: Geodetic Latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: Geodetic Longitude
  • units: km
  • long_name: Mean altitude of the layer
  • var_id: mean_dust_layer_altitude
  • units: None
  • var_id: land_flag
  • long_name: Ocean/Land flag: ocean (0) or land (1)
  • units: None
  • var_id: post_quality_flag
  • long_name: Post-quality flag: bad (0) or good (1)
  • units: None
  • var_id: pre_quality_flag
  • long_name: Pre-quality flag: bad (0) or good (1)
  • var_id: satellite_zenith
  • units: Degrees
  • long_name: Satellite zenith angle
  • units: None
  • long_name: Standard deviation of the Dust optical depth at 10 microns
  • var_id: Daod10000_uncertainty
  • var_id: time
  • units: seconds

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2007-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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