SAGE III/ISS L2 Monthly Aerosol Product (netCDF) V011

These events were affected by line-of-sight blockage from a docked spacecraft, which undermined the data quality. Typically, such events are withheld by a quality assurance process. g3baer_11 is the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) on the International Space Station (ISS) (SAGE III/ISS) Level 2 Monthly Aerosol Product (netCDF) V011 data product.

It contains all of the aerosol data and flags for a month of solar events. Launched on February 19, 2017, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center, the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on the International Space Station (SAGE III/ISS), the second instrument from the SAGE III project is externally mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). This ISS-based instrument uses a technique known as occultation, which involves looking at the light from the Sun or Moon as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere at the planet's edge or limb to provide long-term monitoring of ozone vertical profiles of the stratosphere and mesosphere.