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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 2 aerosol products from AATSR (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Status: Superseded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: 45.42K Files | 40GB
This dataset has been superseded.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 2 aerosol products from AATSR, 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 2 aerosol products from AATSR (SU Algorithm), Version 4.2. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c1d5e11760e94c85a738ff22c36ef4b9/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI, AATSR

Details

Previous Info:

2016-07-28 A new version (4.21) of this dataset is available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/59f3a38819e140b49ffe46f32176709e 2016-07-28 A new version (4.21) of this dataset is available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/59f3a38819e140b49ffe46f32176709e

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 netCDF formatted.

Related Documents

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

Process overview

  • 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: Instrument view
  • var_id: instrument_view
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 1610 nm
  • var_id: AOD_uncertainty1610
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD_uncertainty550
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 555 nm
  • var_id: AOD_uncertainty555
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 659 nm
  • var_id: AOD_uncertainty659
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Uncertainty on AOT at 865 nm
  • var_id: AOD_uncertainty865
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 1610 nm
  • var_id: AOD1610
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 550 nm
  • var_id: AOD550
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 555 nm
  • var_id: AOD555
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 659 nm
  • var_id: AOD659
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol
  • long_name: aerosol optical thickness at 865 nm
  • var_id: AOD865
  • units: 1
  • long_name: angstrom exponent computed on AOD555nm and AOD659nm
  • standard_name: aerosol_angstrom_exponent
  • var_id: Angstrom_555_659
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
  • long_name: fraction of cloud flagged pixels in 10km bin
  • var_id: cloud_fraction
  • units: 1
  • long_name: fraction of fine mode AOD of total AOD
  • var_id: fine_mode_fraction
  • units: 1
  • long_name: fraction of non-spherical dust AOD of coarse mode AOD
  • var_id: dust_fraction
  • units: 1
  • long_name: fraction of weak absorbing AOD of fine mode AOD
  • var_id: weak_absorbing_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_reflectance865
  • units: degrees
  • long_name: relative azimuth angle
  • var_id: relative_azimuth
  • units: degrees
  • standard_name: zenith_angle
  • long_name: satellite zenith angle
  • var_id: satellite_zenith
  • units: degrees
  • long_name: solar zenith angle
  • standard_name: solar_zenith_angle
  • var_id: sun_zenith
  • var_id: time
  • units: seconds

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°
  
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Authors (3)
Publishers (1)