Satellite Aerosol Products

WMO

NOTES how to use the following table:

- for each product click on the entry in the first column to access the standardized product overview page with links to data access and further documentation

- to sort the table by a selected column click on the column header

 

[Ground-based GAW aerosol data (in-situ and remote sensing) are available at the WMO-GAW World Data Center for Aerosols (WDC-A)]

Parameter and Data Access

Aerosol Instrument / Algorithm Organisation Mission / Instrument Period Area
AOD, Ångström coefficient, Fine mode ratio (over ocean)
 
MODIS Dark Target collection 6 NASA EOS Terra/MODIS,
EOS Aqua/MODIS
2002 - global
AOD, Ångström coefficient, SSA MODIS Deep Blue collection 6 NASA EOS Terra/MODIS,
EOS Aqua/MODIS
2000 - global
AOD VIIRS Aerosol NOAA NPP-SUOMI/VIIRS 2013 - global
AOD, Ångström coefficient, SSA (land), fine mode fraction (ocean) SEAWIFS Deep Blue version 4 NASA SeaWIFS 1997 - 2010 global
AOD MERIS Bremen AErosol Retrieval (BAER) University Bremen ENVISAT/MERIS 2005 - 2006 Germany, Maroco
AOD, Ångström coefficient, aerosol mixtures ATSR Aerosol_cci ADV FMI ERS-2/ATSR-2, ENVISAT/AATSR 1995 - 2012 global
AOD, Ångström coefficient, effective radius and other aerosol properties ATSR Aerosol_cci ORAC RAL ERS-2/ATSR-2, ENVISAT/AATSR 1995 - 2012 global
AOD, Ångström coefficient, aerosol mixtures ATSR Aerosol_cci SU SU ERS-2/ATSR-2, ENVISAT/AATSR 1995 - 2012 global
AOD, Ångström coefficient GlobAerosol RAL ERS-2/ATSR-2
ENVISAT/AATSR
ENVISAT/MERIS
MSG/SEVIRI
1995 - 2008 global
AOD
3-to-5 size bins,
fraction non-spherical,
qualitative SSA
MISR Level 2 and Level 3 Aerosol Products NASA EOS Terra/MISR 2000 - global
Plume Top Height MISR Plume Height Climatology Product NASA EOS Terra/MISR 2000 - global
AOD (over ocean 2 modes and size, over land only fine mode AOD) PARASOL Aerosol LOA PARASOL/POLDER 2005 - 2013 global
AOD (spectral), SSA (spectral), fraction of spherical particles, aerosol fraction PARASOL GRASP LOA PARASOL/POLDER 2008 Africa, further selected regions
AOD AVHRR AOD NOAA NOAA/AVHRR 1988 - global oceans
AOD Global Aerosol Climatology Project (GACP) NASA_GISS TIROS/AVHRR,
NOAA/AVHRR
1983 - 2009 global oceans
AOD European AVHRR University Bern NOAA/AVHRR 1989 - 2009 Central Europe
AOD Alpine MSG University Bern MSG/SEVIRI NRT Alpine Europe
AOD GASP NOAA GOES/GOES-East
GOES/GOES-West
NRT US domain
AOD
Type
PM
SYNAER DLR ENVISAT/SCIAMACHY
ENVISAT/AATSR
2003 - 2012 Europe, Africa, Atlantic
AOD PMap EUMETSAT

METOP/GOME-2

METOP/AVHRR

2014 - global oceans

AOD

AAOD, SSA

AI

OMAERUV NASA EOS Aura/OMI 2004 - global
AOD
AAI
Type
OMAERO KNMI EOS Aura/OMI 2004 - global
AAI

GOME & SCIAMACHY
Absorbing Aerosol Index

KNMI ERS-2/GOME
ENVISAT/SCIAMACHY
1995 - global
AAI Absorbing Aerosol Index NASA Nimbus-7/TOMS
Earth Probe/TOMS
Aura/OMI
1978 - global
AOD
Dust Height
AIRS Aerosol Climatology LMD AIRS 2003 - 2011 global
AOD
Extinction Profile, aerosol type
CALIPSO Level 2 Aerosol NASA CALIPSO/CALIOP 2006 - global
Dust AOD IASI / DLR Dust Retrieval DLR Metop/IASI 2009 global dust belt
Extinction profile, AOD (stratosphere) GOMOS stratosphere BIRA ENVISAT/GOMOS 2008 global
Extinction profile (stratosphere) OSIRIS stratosphere Univ. Saskatchewan OSIRIS 2002 - 2014 global