Collection Citation

 Collection TitleAERONET: The Aerosol Robotic Network 
 Collection SponsorUSDOE - Office of Science (SC) 
 Other SponsorsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); PHOTONS (University of Lille 1, CNES, CNRS-INSU); National Science Foundation LTER Program 
 Host WebsiteNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center 
 Main Content TypeInteractive data maps; Numeric Files/Datasets 
 Subject Categories54 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 
 KeywordsAerosol inversions; optical properties; microphysical properties; radiative properties; Spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD); Global Climate Change Research 
 DescriptionThe AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) program is a federation of ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks established by NASA and LOA-PHOTONS (CNRS) and is greatly expanded by collaborators from national agencies, institutes, universities, individual scientists, and partners. The program provides a long-term, continuous and readily accessible public domain database of aerosol optical, mircrophysical and radiative properties for aerosol research and characterization, validation of satellite retrievals, and synergism with other databases. The network imposes standardization of instruments, calibration, processing and distribution.

AERONET collaboration provides globally distributed observations of spectral aerosol optical Depth (AOD), inversion products, and precipitable water in diverse aerosol regimes. Aerosol optical depth data are computed for three data quality levels: Level 1.0 (unscreened), Level 1.5 (cloud-screened), and Level 2.0 (cloud screened and quality-assured). Inversions, precipitable water, and other AOD-dependent products are derived from these levels and may implement additional quality checks.[Copied from http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/system_descriptions.html]

 
 DDE NumberDDE00383 
 Special InterfaceYes 
 Registration_RequiredNo