Description
This dataset contains comprehensive measurements of aerosol microphysical, chemical, and optical properties derived for both dry and ambient conditions from in situ measurements made during the four ATom campaigns. The dataset includes composition-resolved size distributions the integrated mass of sulfate, organics, nitrate, sea salt, dust, black carbon, and other compounds in coarse and fine fractions; extinction and absorption coefficients from each species at both dry and ambient conditions; asymmetry parameters; Angstrom exponents; and fitted lognormal functions to describe the size distribution. Optical parameters are calculated for 10 wavelengths from the near UV to the near IR, and size distributions range from 3 nm to 50 um in diameter. One file contains these data at 1-minute time intervals. Another file contains a subset of these data averaged into 1-km vertical bins for each vertical profile the aircraft made, as well as composition-resolved integrated aerosol optical depth derived from each profile. The concentration of cloud condensation nuclei is calculated for 5 supersaturations.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | ATom campaign page | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Aerosol extinction across ATom campaigns. Sea salt is shown in (g) and (h), dust in (i) and (j), and water in (k) and (l). Source: Brock et al., 2021 | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ATom: Comprehensive Aerosol Properties, 2016-2018, Version 2: ATom_Aerosol_Properties_V2.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | CSV | ATom: Comprehensive Aerosol Properties, 2016-2018, Version 2: Data_Dictionary_ATom_Aerosol_Properties_V2.csv | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | USE SERVICE API | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |