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Dataset

 

ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 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Status: Superseded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: 3.58K Files | 4GB

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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 3 aerosol products from AATSR, using the Swansea University (SU) algorithm, version 4.21. Both daily and monthly gridded products are available.

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

Citable as:  de Leeuw, G.; Popp, T. (2016): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol products from AATSR (SU algorithm), Version 4.21. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5dd3881e89c8419bbdba4ab06aa91112/
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(s):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/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: Mean of L2 Uncertainty on AOT at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Mean of L2 uncertainty on AOT at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Mean of L2 uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Mean of L2 uncertainty on AOT at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: absorbing AOD
  • var_id: AAOD550_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: fine mode AOD
  • var_id: FM_AOD550_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: maximum L2 Uncertainty on AOT at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty_max
  • units: 1
  • long_name: maximum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty_max
  • units: 1
  • long_name: maximum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty_max
  • units: 1
  • long_name: maximum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty_max
  • units: 1
  • long_name: mean bidirectional surface reflectance (nadir)
  • var_id: surface_reflectance870_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
  • long_name: mean fraction of cloud flagged pixels in 10km bin
  • var_id: cloud_fraction_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: land_area_fraction
  • long_name: mean land fraction
  • var_id: surface_type_number_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: minimum L2 Uncertainty on AOT at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty_min
  • units: 1
  • long_name: minimum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty_min
  • units: 1
  • long_name: minimum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty_min
  • units: 1
  • long_name: minimum L2 uncertainty on AOT at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty_min
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol
  • long_name: non-spherical dust AOD
  • var_id: D_AOD550_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: number of retrieval pixels in grid cell
  • var_id: pixel_count
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty
  • long_name: propagated L2 uncertainty aerosol optical thickness at 870 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty
  • long_name: propagated L2 uncertainty in aerosol optical thickness at 1600 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty
  • long_name: propagated L2 uncertainty in aerosol optical thickness at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty
  • long_name: propagated L2 uncertainty in aerosol optical thickness at 670 nm
  • units: 1
  • long_name: single scattering albedo at 550nm
  • var_id: SSA550_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation absorbing AOD
  • var_id: AAOD550_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation aerosol optical thickness at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation aerosol optical thickness at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation aerosol optical thickness at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation aerosol optical thickness at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation angstrom exponent computed on AOD550nm and AOD870nm
  • var_id: ANG550_870_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation fine mode AOD
  • var_id: FM_AOD550_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation mean bidirectional surface reflectance (nadir)
  • var_id: surface_reflectance870_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation mean fraction of cloud flagged pixels in 10km bin
  • var_id: cloud_fraction_sdev
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: land_area_fraction
  • long_name: standard deviation mean land fraction
  • var_id: surface_type_number_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation non-spherical dust AOD
  • var_id: D_AOD550_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of L2 Uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_uncertainty_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of L2 Uncertainty on AOT at 670 nm
  • var_id: AOD670_uncertainty_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of L2 uncertainty on AOT at 1600 nm
  • var_id: AOD1600_uncertainty_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of L2 uncertainty on AOT at 870 nm
  • var_id: AOD870_uncertainty_sdev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of SSA
  • var_id: SSA550_sdev

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:
2002-05-19T23:00:00
End time:
2012-04-30T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°