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Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.24
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/glossac-l3-v2.24
The Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology (GloSSAC) team first created the dataset in 2018 to support the climate modeling community through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Phase 6.
Description
GloSSAC is an internationally recognized source for assessing long-term variability in stratospheric aerosol properties. It supports major international science activities such as CMIP Phase 7 as well a range of other aerosol variability applications.
GloSSAC is a global data product providing monthly zonal average aerosol climatology in netCDF4 format. It currently includes stratospheric aerosol extinction coefficient and optical depth at 525 and 1020 nm at 5-degree latitude and 0.5 km altitude bin resolutions. The data covers the time period from Dec 1978 through present and is available via NASA's Earthdata (earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/glossac).
Links
Get the data
- DOI data set landing page for GloSSAC_2.24 doi.org/10.5067/glossac-l3-v2.24 ↗
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- GloSSAC Product Quality Summary asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/glossac/quality_summaries/GloSSAC_Product_Quality_Su… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- GloSSAC Project Guide Document asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/glossac/guide/GloSSAC_Project_Guide_Document_v2.24.p… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- GloSSAC Readme File asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/glossac/readme/readme_glossac_v2.24.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4212794150-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C4212794150-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for GloSSAC_2.24 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/global-space-based-stratospheric-aerosol-climatology-v… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4212794150-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=3a624a70-0ea5-4c70-b95e-45d8c428b… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4212794150-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Aerosol Backscatter · Aerosol Extinction · Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness · Aerosol Particle Properties · Aerosols · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization · Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer · Dust/Ash/Smoke · Earth Radiation Budget Satellite · International Space Station · ODIN · Optical Spectrograph and Infrared Imaging System · Particulate Matter · Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II · Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III · Sulfate Particles · Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 73%
Related
Provenance · 2 source records, 33 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4212794150-LARC_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 3a624a70-0ea5-4c70-b95e-45d8c428b076 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (73%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:caliop | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:claes | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:osiris | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:sage-ii | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:sage-iii | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-backscatter | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-extinction | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-optical-depth-thickness | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-particle-properties | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/dust-ash-smoke | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/particulate-matter | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/sulfate-particles | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:calipso | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:erbs | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:iss | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:odin | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:uars | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |