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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 daily mean aerosol products (IASI_ULB algorithm), Version 8

Latest Data Update: 2020-06-10
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Working
Publication Date:
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 4.85K Files | 78GB
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_ULB algorithm), Version 8. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/58af87cbae77468f9c3b691f2ad84b0b
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI

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

Process overview

  • units: 1
  • var_id: cloud_flag
  • long_name: Cloud flag
  • standard_name: cloud_flag
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • var_id: D_AOD10000
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 10000 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • var_id: D_AOD11000
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 11000 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • var_id: D_AOD550
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Dust flag
  • standard_name: dust_flag
  • var_id: dust_flag
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Pre retrieval quality flag
  • standard_name: pre_quality_flag
  • var_id: pre_quality_flag
  • units: degrees
  • var_id: satellite_zenith_at_center
  • long_name: Satellite zenith angle
  • standard_name: satellite_zenith
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Surface Type Number
  • standard_name: surface_type_number
  • var_id: surface_flag
  • units: 1
  • long_name: post retrieval quality flag
  • standard_name: post_quality_flag
  • var_id: post_quality_flag

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: UTC time of acquisition
  • 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:
2007-10-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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