NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Daily and Monthly Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) over Global Oceans, Version 4.0

Description

The product is the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) at 0.63 micron, which is retrieved from NOAA PATMOS-x AVHRR+HIRS level-2B orbital radiance and cloud CDR products. The retrieval is performed for selected spatial (0.1 by 0.1 degree) and temporal (1 time per day per satellite) resolution in cloud free conditions during daytime. The final product is daily averaged from all satellite retrievals and in a 0.1 by 0.1 degree equal angle grid (total 1800x3600 grids over the globe). Due to the relatively large uncertainties associated with surface reflectance over water glint area and land surface as well as limited AVHRR retrieval channels, the current algorithm only performs retrieval over none-glint water surface (specifically at the anti-solar side of the orbit and viewing angle is larger than 40 degree away from the specular ray). The final CDR AOT products include daily and monthly products.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/w3zj-4y48
0 Direct download for dataset files. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/avhrr-aerosol-optical-thickness/access/
0 Direct download for the documentation. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/avhrr-aerosol-optical-thickness/doc/
21 THREDDS Data Service for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds/satellite/avhrr-aot.html
0 Data access for the CDR product https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/climate-data-records/avhrr-aerosol-optical-thickness
0 Information on AWS data access. https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-cdr-atmospheric/
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket. https://noaa-cdr-aerosol-optical-thickness-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
21 Information on Microsoft Azure data access. https://microsoft.github.io/AIforEarthDataSets/data/noaa-cdr.html
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Open Access Science Journal https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8040300
0 Zhao, T. X.-P., P. K. Chan, and A. K. Heidinger (2013), A global survey of the effect of cloud contamination on the aerosol optical thickness and its long-term trend derived from operational AVHRR satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2849-2857, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50278. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50278
0 Immediate predecessor to the Version 4 dataset. Version 3 of the dataset has been superseded by a newer version. Users should not use version 3 except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used version 3). https://doi.org/10.7289/V5BZ642P
0 Immediate predecessor to the Version 3 dataset. Version 2 of the dataset has been superseded by a newer version. Users should not use version 2 except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used version 2). https://doi.org/10.7289/V5SB43PD
0 Immediate predecessor to the Version 2 dataset. Version 1 of the dataset has been superseded by a newer version. Users should not use version 1 except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used version 1). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00802/html

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  • atmospheric - composition - aerosol properties
  • space-based platforms
  • vertical location
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer-3
  • avhrr-2
  • 1 km
  • avhrr-3
  • national climatic data center
  • nesdis
  • aerosols
  • earth observation satellites
  • noaa climate data record (cdr) program
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer
  • 10 km - < 50 km or approximately .09 degree - < .5 degree
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • global
  • troposphere
  • noaa onestop project
  • hourly - < daily
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • geographic region
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • satellite
  • avhrr
  • polar orbiting environmental satellites (poes)
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer-2
  • national centers for environmental information
  • noaa poes

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