Aerosol_CCI (ESA's Climate Change Initiative, Aerosols)
The latest / best and most complete + validated aerosol datasets. All datasets cover at least the “golden year” of the Aerosol_cci products: 2008. In addition, for mature products from sensors with predecessor instruments (i. e. ATSR-2 for AATSR) an additional dataset for the year 2000 is provided. A complete time series is provided for one algorithm for AATSR (Swansea algorithm, version 4.1; 2002 – 2012). All products provide global coverage except at high latitudes and in some cases except deserts; 2 products cover only ocean; three products are flagged as experimental since they require significant further development (BAER, ESA MERIS-standard, SYNAER).
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Atmospheric Retrievals from MIPAS/Envisat
This NCEO dataset contains atmospheric profiles from the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) on Envisat, processed with the Oxford L2 retrieval algorithm MORSE; differs from ESA's L2 products as it uses an optimal estimation approach, rather than regularised least squares fit, and has additional molecules.
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Biogeochemical-Argo floats
These are floats that measures biogeochemical and optical variables (e.g. oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll, optical backscatter, spectral downward irradiance) in addition to salinity and temperature measured by traditional Argo floats in the global ocean.
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ESA's Climate Change Initiative; Land cover
Provides five key land cover data products: the full archive (2003-2012) of MERIS Full Resolution time series pre-processed in 7-day composites; three global LC maps representative for the 1998-2002, 2003-2007 and 2008-2012 epochs; three global land cover seasonality products describing the vegetation greenness, the snow and the burned areas occurrence dynamics; a global map of open and permanent water bodies at 300m spatial resolution; and a user tool for sub-setting, re-projecting and re-sampling the products.
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