The BOREAS RSS-11 team operated a network of five automated (Cimel) and two hand-held (Miami) solar radiometers from 1994 to 1996 during the BOREAS field campaigns. The data provide aerosol optical depth measurements, size distribution, phase function, and column water vapor amounts over points in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. The data are useful for the correction of remotely sensed aircraft and satellite images. The data are provided in tabular ASCII files.
A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/data/boreas/RSS/r11sunpd/comp/RSS11_Sun_Photo.txt.
ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.
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