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Dataset

 

ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 aerosol products from AATSR (SU Algorithm), Version 4.21

Latest Data Update: 2016-05-07
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-05-07
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 47.76K Files | 53GB

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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 2 aerosol products from AATSR, using the Swansea University (SU) algorithm, version 4.21.

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

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team; de Leeuw, G.; Popp, T. (2016): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 aerosol products from AATSR (SU Algorithm), Version 4.21. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/59f3a38819e140b49ffe46f32176709e
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI, AATSR

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.

File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

ENVISAT AATSR Deployed on: Envisat

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1 Mobile Platform Operation for: Envisat
Output Description

None

  • 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
  • long_name: Sinusoidal pixel index
  • var_id: pixel_number
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
  • long_name: fraction of cloud flagged pixels in 10km bin
  • var_id: cloud_fraction
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: land_binary_mask
  • long_name: land / sea flag
  • var_id: surface_type_number
  • units: 1
  • long_name: mean bidirectional surface reflectance (nadir)
  • var_id: surface_reflectance870
  • units: degrees
  • long_name: relative azimuth angle
  • var_id: relative_azimuth_at_center
  • units: degrees
  • standard_name: zenith_angle
  • long_name: satellite zenith angle
  • var_id: satellite_zenith_at_center
  • units: 1
  • long_name: single scattering albedo at 550nm
  • var_id: SSA550
  • units: degrees
  • long_name: solar zenith angle
  • standard_name: solar_zenith_angle
  • var_id: sun_zenith_at_center

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: Latitude at pixel centre
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: Longitude at pixel centre
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude_1st_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_latitude1
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude_2nd_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_latitude2
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude_3rd_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_latitude3
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude_4th_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_latitude4
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude_1st_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_longitude1
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude_2nd_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_longitude2
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude_3rd_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_longitude3
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude_4th_corner
  • var_id: pixel_corner_longitude4
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • units: seconds
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-05-19T23:00:00
End time:
2012-04-30T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°