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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol_cci): Level 3 aerosol products from ATSR-2 (ADV algorithm), Version 2.31

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2020-04-29
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2020-08-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 2.38K Files | 9GB
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 and monthly gridded aerosol products from the ATSR-2 instrument on the ERS-2 satellite, derived using the ADV algorithm, version 2.31. It covers the period from 1995-2003.

For further details about these data products please see the linked 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 ATSR-2 (ADV algorithm), Version 2.31. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/302939d341fa4013b6d96d231d6d4f40
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, ATSR2

Details

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Previously used record identifiers:
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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
 ESA CCI Programme Website
 The ESA Aerosol CCI Project
 Product User Guide
 Aerosol CCI Phase 2 final report

Process overview

  • units: 1
  • long_name: Angstrom coefficient determined with mean AODs at 550 and 670 nm
  • var_id: ANG550-670_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Fraction of water
  • var_id: fraction_of_water
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: FM_AOD550_mean
  • long_name: Mean fine mode aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty_mean
  • long_name: The mean uncertainty of the pixels
  • units: 1
  • long_name: The propagation of of pixel uncertainties into the average value
  • var_id: AOD550_propagated_uncertainty_1
  • units: 1
  • long_name: The sum of AOD550_sdev and AOD_propagated_uncertainty_1
  • var_id: AOD550_propagated_uncertainty_2
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Worst-case propagation (AOD+sdev)-(AOD-sdev)
  • var_id: AOD550_worst_case_uncertainty
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: surface_albedo
  • long_name: mean Surface reflectance nadir view at 550 nm
  • var_id: surface_albedo550_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: AOD1600_mean
  • long_name: mean aerosol optical density at 1600 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: AOD550_mean
  • long_name: mean aerosol optical density at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • var_id: AOD670_mean
  • long_name: mean aerosol optical density at 670 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: quality_flag
  • long_name: mean quality measure 1=best
  • units: 1
  • long_name: number of retrieval pixels in grid cell
  • var_id: pixel_count
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD1600_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 1600 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD550_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD670_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 670 nm

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1995-06-01T00:00:00
End time:
2003-04-30T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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