ATom: Comprehensive Aerosol Properties, 2016-2018, Version 2

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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.

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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 PDF 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

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