Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation Brazil (SCAR-B) AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) Data

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SCAR_B_AERONET data are Smoke, Clouds and Radiation Brazil (SCARB) Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data for aerosol characterization.Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - Brazil (SCAR-B) data include physical and chemical components of the Earth's surface, the atmosphere and the radiation field collected in Brazil with an emphasis in biomass burning.The objectives for the SCAR mission are: to advance our knowledge of how the physical, chemical and radiative processes in our atmosphere are affected by sulfate aerosol and smoke from biomass burning; to improve our expertise at remotely sensing smoke, water vapor, clouds, vegetation and fires; and to assess the effects of deforestation and biomass burning on tropical landscapes.AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) is an optical ground based aerosol monitoring network and data archive supported by NASA's Earth Observing System and expanded by federation with many non-NASA institutions. The network hardware consists of identical automatic sun-sky scanning spectral radiometers owned by national agencies and universities. Data from this collaboration provides globally distributed near real time observations of aerosol spectral optical depths, aerosol size distributions, and precipitable water in diverse aerosol regimes. The data undergo preliminary processing (real time data), reprocessing (final calibration ~6 mo. after data collection), quality assurance, archiving and distribution from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center master archive and several identical data bases maintained globally. The data provide algorithm validation of satellite aerosol retrievals and as well as characterization of aerosol properties that are unavailable from satellite sensors.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FSCAR_B%2F0004
21 ASDC Data and Information for SCAR-B https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/SCAR-B
21 Earthdata Search for SCAR_B_AERONET_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1337195036-LARC_ASDC
21 OPeNDAP data access for SCAR_B_AERONET_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/SCAR-B/SCAR_B_AERONET/contents.html
21 DOI data set landing page for SCAR_B_AERONET_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/SCAR_B/0004
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for SCAR_B_AERONET_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/SCAR-B/SCAR_B_AERONET/
21 ASDC List of MODIS Airborne Simularot (MAS) Flight Line Information by Date https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/scara/scar_summaries.html
33 SCAR Langley DAAC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/scarb/guide/scar_project.pdf

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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