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Dataset

 

ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 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: 7.85K Files | 8GB

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 3 daily mean aerosol products (IASI_ULB algorithm), Version 8. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9584b97189154127a0b5d82b0be45fbc/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, 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.

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.

Process overview

  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 10000 nm
  • var_id: D_AOD10000_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 11000 nm
  • var_id: D_AOD11000_mean
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • var_id: D_AOD550_mean
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Number of observations averaged
  • standard_name: number_averaged
  • var_id: number
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Percentage number of dust detections
  • standard_name: Percentage_number_of_dust_detections
  • var_id: Detection_mean
  • var_id: latitude

Co-ordinate Variables

  • 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°