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Description

The ABI G16 Deep Blue L3 Monthly Aerosol Data, 1 x 1 degree grid product, short-name AERDB_M3_ABI_G16, derived by aggregating the L3 daily (AERDB_D3_ABI_G16) input data, each M3 ABI/GOES-16 product is produced monthly at 1 x 1-degree horizontal resolution. This monthly L3 (identified in the short-name as M3) product’s statistics that include mean and standard deviation of the daily means are derived from the arithmetic mean values of the L3 daily product. As a mechanism to filter out poorly sampled grid elements, at least three valid days of data in the month are required to populate the monthly grid element. This first release of these products spans from May 2019 through April 2020 with a potential to generate additional temporal coverage in the future.

The Level-3 (L3) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Deep Blue Monthly Aerosol dataset is part of a 12-product suite produced by an Earth Science Research from Operational Geostationary Satellite Systems (ESROGSS)-funded project. The 12 products in this project include nine derived from three Geostationary Earth Observation (GEO) instruments and three from merged data from GEO and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)) instruments.

The AERDB_D3_ABI_G16 product, in netCDF4 format, contains 48 Science Data Set (SDS) layers.

For more information consult LAADS product description page at:

https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/products/AERDB_M3_ABI_G16

Or, Deep Blue aerosol project webpage at:
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/climate/data/deep-blue

Version Description

GOES-16 Version 1 Data

Product Summary

Platforms
GOES-16
Instruments
ABI
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
10 Kilometers x 10 Kilometers
Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2019-05-01 to 2020-05-01
Data Partner
L1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System,Biospheric Information Systems Branch, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/H ,
Atmosphere Science Investigator-led Processing System, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWI-MAD/SSEC/ASIPS)
Concept ID
C3352280822-LAADS
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
12
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness ,
Angstrom Exponent ,
Aerosols ,
Aerosol Particle Properties

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Team, D. B. A. A. S. (2024). GOES16 Deep Blue Level 3 monthly aerosol data, 1x1 degree grid [Data set]. NASA Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ESROGSS/AERDB_M3_ABI_G16.001 Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

File Naming Convention

Syntax: ESDT.AYYYYDDD.CCC.YYYYDDDHHMMSS.Format

Example: AERDB_M3_ABI_G16.A2019152.001.2024176150013.nc

ESDT: Earth Science Data Type or short name

A: Stands for Acquisition

YYYYDDD: Data acquisition year and day-of-year

HHMM: Acquisition hour and minute

CCC: Version ID of the data collection

YYYYDDDHHMMSS: Processing year, day-of-year, UTC time (hour, minutes, seconds)

Format: File format suffix, which in the above case represents netCDF4

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