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Aerosols Data Access and Tools
Aerosols Datasets
| Dataset | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Location Keywords | Spatial Extent | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational eXperiment - University of Washington instrumented C-131A aircraft Data Set | C-131A | PCASP, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, TSI-3562 Nephelometer, PROBES, FSSP | 1996-07-10 to 1996-07-31 | ATLANTIC OCEAN | ASCII | |
| UARS Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) Level 3AL V009 (UARCL3AL) at GES DISC | UARS | CLAES | 1991-10-25 to 1993-05-05 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| UARS Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) Level 3AT V009 (UARCL3AT) at GES DISC | UARS | CLAES | 1991-10-25 to 1993-05-05 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| UARS Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) Level 2 V019 (UARHA2FN) at GES DISC | UARS | HALOE | 1991-10-11 to 2005-11-21 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| UARS Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) Level 3AT V019 (UARHA3AT) at GES DISC | UARS | HALOE | 1991-10-11 to 2001-09-24 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| UARS Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) Level 3AL V010 (UARIS3AL) at GES DISC | UARS | ISAMS | 1991-09-26 to 1992-07-29 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| UARS Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) Level 3AT V010 (UARIS3AT) at GES DISC | UARS | ISAMS | 1991-09-26 to 1992-07-29 | GLOBAL, MESOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE | N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180 | |
| VAGHT Combined GEOLEO Aerosol 30-Min average L3 Global 0.25x0.25 degree grid | GOES-16, Terra, Aqua, Himawari-8, Himawari-9, GOES-17, NOAA-20, Suomi-NPP | ABI, MODIS, AHI, VIIRS | 2019-01-01 to 2023-01-02 | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 | NetCDF-4 |
| VIIRS/JPSS1 Aerosol Daily L3 Global 0.05 Deg CMG | NOAA-20 | VIIRS | 2018-01-05 to Present | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 | HDF-EOS5 |
| VIIRS/JPSS1 Land Aerosol Optical Thickness L2G Daily Global 1km SIN Grid V002 | NOAA-20 | VIIRS | 2018-01-05 to Present | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 | HDF-EOS5 |
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Aerosols Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppEEARS | The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. | Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization | |
| ASDC CALIPSO Search and Subset Tool | The CALIPSO Search and Subset web application enables a more sophisticated approach to selecting and ordering CALIPSO lidar data by date, time and geolocation. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Panoply | Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. | Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison | |
| SOOT | NASA's Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) provides users with suborbital field campaign data discovery and download capabilities. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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