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Aerosol Products

The primary products are daily, weekly, and monthly global 1 degree maps of Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT). The weekly products are based on a composite of one week's worth of data, and the monthly mean products are based on the average of each week's data for the month. The Aerosol fields and contour charts are produced from NOAA-16 AVHRR data.

Optical thickness, or optical depth, is a dimensionless quantity that indicates the amount of depletion that a beam of radiation undergoes as it passes through a layer of the atmosphere. Optical depth is a function of the density, composition, temperature, pressure, and volume of the layer.

These products are archived at the National Climatic Data Center in both hardcopy chart and digital dataset form.


Global Images of Aerosol Optical Thickness Data

Time Frame Colored Field Contoured Field Colored Contour Lines Filled Contour Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs Age Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs #
Daily Analysis Aerosol Colored Field Daily Analysis thumbnail Aerosol Contoured Field Daily Analysis thumbnail Aerosol Colored Contour Lines Daily Analysis thumbnail Aerosol Filled Contour Daily Analysis thumbnail Aerosol Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs Age Daily Analysis thumbnail Aerosol Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs # Daily Analysis thumbnail
Weekly Composite Aerosol Colored Field Weekly Composite thumbnail Aerosol Contoured Field Weekly Composite thumbnail Aerosol Colored Contour Lines Weekly Composite thumbnail Aerosol Filled Contour Weekly Composite thumbnail Aerosol Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs Age Weekly Composite thumbnail Aerosol Composite Contoured Aerosol and Colored Obs # Weekly Composite thumbnail
Monthly Mean Aerosol Colored Field Monthly Mean thumbnail Aerosol Contoured Field Monthly Mean thumbnail Aerosol Colored Contour Lines Monthly Mean thumbnail Aerosol Filled Contour Monthly Mean thumbnail not available not available

 

small blue ballAerosol Optical Thickness Experimental Daily Analysis Color Images
small blue ballAerosol Optical Thickness Weekly Composite Color Images
small blue ballAerosol 1.6 micron Optical Thickness Experimental Weekly Composite Color Images
small blue ballAerosol Optical Thickness Monthly Mean Color Image

Documentation:

small blue ballAerosol Documentation from NOAA KLM User's Guide
small blue ballA very useful and thorough document on the NOAA series of satellites is the Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, compiled and edited by Katherine Kidwell.

 

 


  
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