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ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 monthly mean aerosol products (IASI_MAPIR algorithm), Version 3.51

Latest Data Update: 2020-06-10
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Working
Publication Date:
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 273 Files | 79MB
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 monthly mean aerosol products (IASI_MAPIR algorithm), Version 3.51. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/d71d0a92e65a485da2a03a2528bd45dc
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI

Details

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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.
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.

Related Documents

 ESA CCI Aerosol project website
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Overview
 ESA CCI Aerosol Products Description

Process overview

  • var_id: D_AOD10000_mean
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 10000 nm (Retrieved)
  • var_id: D_AOD11000_mean
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 11000 nm (Retrieved)
  • var_id: D_AOD550_mean
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 550 nm (Using a Conversion Factor of 1.8)
  • units: micrometers
  • long_name: Dust Effective Radius
  • standard_name:
  • var_id: D_REFF_mean
  • units: kilometers
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Dust Mean Altitude
  • var_id: D_ALT_mean
  • standard_name:
  • var_id: number_averaged
  • long_name: Number of Pixels averaged
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Retrieval Absolute Partial Uncertainty on Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 10000 nm
  • var_id: D_AOD10000_partial_uncertainty_mean
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Retrieval Absolute Partial Uncertainty on Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 11000 nm
  • var_id: D_AOD11000_partial_uncertainty_mean
  • standard_name:
  • long_name: Retrieval Quality Flag
  • var_id: post_quality_flag_mean

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:
2007-09-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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