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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol products from GOMOS (AERGOM algorithm), Version 2.19

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Status: Superseded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: 738 Files | 336MB
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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 monthly products from GOMOS, using the AERGOM algorithm, version 2.19 and was produced by BIRA (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy).

The data are stored as 5 day averages and standard deviations of a range of aerosol variables, on global 2.5 degree x 10 degree latitutude/longitude grids, and in NetCDF format. The horizontal resolution is 0.5km.

The variables included are: Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom coefficient, extinction profile.

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 3 aerosol products from GOMOS (AERGOM algorithm), Version 2.19. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/91a7029627754d60912e58255b686836/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI

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(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

Related Documents

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

Process overview

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

Instrument/Platform pairings

ENVISAT GOMOS 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
  • standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
  • long_name: Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC) occurrence frequency
  • var_id: PSC_occ
  • standard_name: altitude
  • var_id: altitude
  • units: km
  • long_name: altitude

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:
2002-03-31T23:00:00
End time:
2012-05-03T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

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