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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 aerosol products from ATSR2 (ADV algorithm), Version 2.30

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Status: Superseded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: 2.56K Files | 7GB
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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 ATSR-2, using the ADV algorithm, version 2.30. Both daily and monthly gridded products are available

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 ATSR2 (ADV algorithm), Version 2.30. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c4d4c347455341aa938bedfefa2964a1
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, ATSR2

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
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 in NetCDF format

Related Documents

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

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
  • 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: Angstrom coefficient determined with mean AODs at 550 and 670 nm
  • var_id: ANG550-670_mean
  • units: 1
  • long_name: Fraction of water
  • var_id: fraction_of_water
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: surface_albedo
  • long_name: mean Surface reflectance nadir view at 550 nm
  • var_id: surface_albedo550_mean
  • units: 1
  • var_id: quality_flag
  • long_name: mean quality measure 1=best
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: surface_albedo
  • var_id: surface_albedo550_mean
  • long_name: mean surface reflectance nadir view at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: surface_albedo
  • long_name: median surface reflectance nadir view at 550 nm
  • var_id: surface_albedo550_median
  • units: 1
  • var_id: pixel_count
  • long_name: number of days with results
  • units: 1
  • long_name: number of retrieval pixels in grid cell
  • var_id: pixel_count
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD1600_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 1600 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD550_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: AOD670_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of aerosol optical density at 670 nm
  • units: 1
  • var_id: FM_AOD550_sdev
  • long_name: standard deviation of fine mode aerosol optical depth at 550 nm
  • units: 1
  • long_name: standard deviation of surface reflectance nadir view at 550 nm
  • var_id: surface_albedo550_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:
1995-05-31T23:00:00
End time:
2003-06-04T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

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