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SAFARI 2000 AERONET Ground-based Aerosol Data, Dry Season 2000

Overview

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/706
Version1
Project
Published2004-06-28
Updated2023-10-18
Usage586 downloads
Citations2 publications cited this dataset

Description

AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) is an optical ground-based aerosol monitoring network and data archive system. AERONET measurements of the column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Africa region were made by sun-sky radiometers at several sites in August-September 2000 as a part of the SAFARI 2000 dry season aircraft campaign. AERONET is supported by NASA's Earth Observing System and expanded by federation with many non-NASA institutions. The network hardware consists of identical automatic sun-sky scanning spectral radiometers owned by national agencies and universities. Data from this collaboration provides globally-distributed near-real-time observations of aerosol spectral optical depths, aerosol size distributions, and precipitable water in diverse aerosol regimes.

Science Keywords

  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
  • WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • WATER VAPOR
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • AEROSOLS
  • AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • AEROSOLS
  • AEROSOL EXTINCTION

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Holben, B.N., and T.F. Eck. 2000. SAFARI 2000 AERONET Ground-based Aerosol Data, Dry Season 2000. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/706

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