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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol monthly products from ATSR2 (SU algorithm), Version 4.2

Latest Data Update: 2015-07-15
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2015-12-08
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 91 Files | 190MB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
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 monthly products from ATSR-2, using the Swansea University (SU) algorithm, version 4.2.

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

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team; de Leeuw, G.; Popp, T. (2015): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol monthly products from ATSR2 (SU algorithm), Version 4.2. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/62fae7fa0c33421db2fef0d65e374779
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI, AATSR

Details

Previous Info:

2016-07-28 A new version of this dataset (v4.21) is now available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6609ab72c29d49a4b45223cd15104fdd 2016-07-28 A new version of this dataset (v4.21) is now available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6609ab72c29d49a4b45223cd15104fdd

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 netCDF formatted.

Related Documents

 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Description
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Overview
 ESA CCI Aerosol project website
 Aerosol CCI paper in AMT
 Product User Guide

Process overview

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

Instrument/Platform pairings

ERS2 ATSR2 Deployed on: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 - ERS-2

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1 Mobile Platform Operation for: ERS-2
Output Description

None
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Aerosol optical depth at 1610 nm
  • var_id: AOD1610_MEDIAN
  • names: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol, Aerosol optical depth at 1610 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550_MEDIAN
  • names: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol, Aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Aerosol optical depth at 659 nm
  • var_id: AOD659_MEDIAN
  • names: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol, Aerosol optical depth at 659 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Aerosol optical depth at 865 nm
  • var_id: AOD865_MEDIAN
  • names: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol, Aerosol optical depth at 865 nm
  • 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: number of pixels in one gridcell
  • standard_name: pixel_number_in_one_cell
  • var_id: PIXEL_COVERAGE
  • names: number of pixels in one gridcell, pixel_number_in_one_cell

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • names: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • names: longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1995-05-31T23:00:00
End time:
2003-06-04T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (3)
Publishers (1)