NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Daily and Monthly Aerosol Optical Thickness over Global Oceans, Version 1.0 (Version Superseded)

Description

*Note: This dataset version has been superseded by a newer version. It is highly recommended that users access the current version. Users should only use this version for special cases, such as reproducing studies that used this version.* This NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) at 0.63 micron is retrieved from operational AVHRR orbital pixel level observations in the Level-1B Global Area Coverage (GAC) dataset. The retrieval is performed for selected spatial (8-km) and temporal (1 time per day) resolution in cloud free condition during daytime over global oceans. The final product is mapped into 0.5 by 0.5 degree equal area grid (total 165018 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 non-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 retrieval products include a daily and monthly mean product and cover the period from 1981 to 2009. Daily and monthly mean data files are grouped by ascending and descending node by satellite.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Contact NCEI for more information and to request access to the archived data. Requests are subject to NCEI order fulfillment constraints. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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 Journal of Geophysical Research. doi:10.1029/2007JD009061 https://doi.org/doi:10.1029/2007JD009061
0 Access to the published CDR data, source code, and documentation. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/climate-data-records
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 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00802/html
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 Meteorological Applications. doi:10.1002/met.235 https://doi.org/DOI:10.1002/met.235
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 Landing page for the Current Version. https://doi.org/10.25921/w3zj-4y48

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  • aerosol optical depth/thickness
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-7
  • vertical location
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer-3
  • noaa-9
  • avhrr-2
  • noaa-18
  • avhrr-3
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-15
  • national climatic data center
  • nesdis
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-10
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-9
  • aerosols
  • noaa-14
  • noaa-16
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • global
  • troposphere
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • geographic region
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-12
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • metop-a
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-14
  • avhrr
  • noaa-10
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • noaa-11
  • noaa-12
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-18
  • meteorological operational satellite - a
  • noaa-15
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-11
  • national oceanic & atmospheric administration-16
  • noaa-7
  • advanced very high resolution radiometer-2
  • national centers for environmental information
  • stratosphere

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