OMI/Aura Aerosol product Multi-wavelength Algorithm Zoomed 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x12km

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Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Pepin Veefkind, Ph.D

Publication_Date: 2012

Title: OMI/Aura Aerosol product Multi-wavelength Algorithm Zoomed 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x12km

Edition: 003

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital Science Data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: OMAEROZ

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Online_Linkage: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/OMI/omaeroz_v003.shtml

Description:

Abstract:

The reprocessed OMI/Aura Level-2 Zoomed Aerosol data product OMAEROZ at 13x12 km resolution has been made available from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center(http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/OMI/omaeroz_v003.shtml ) for the public access in March 2012. There are two Level-2 Aura OMI aerosol products OMAERO and OMAERUV. The OMAERUV product uses the near-UV algorithm. The OMAERO (13x24 km resolution) and OMAEROZ (13x12 km resolution)is based on the multi-wavelength algorithm that uses up to 20 wavelength bands between 331 nm and 500 nm. The multi-wavelength retrieval algorithm is developed by the KNMI OMI Team Scientists. Drs. Deborah Stein-Zweers, Martin Sneep and Pepijn Veefkind are now the key investigators of this product. The OMAEROZ products contain Aerosol Optical Depths, Single Scattering Albedo, Aerosol Type, Aerosol Layer Height, and other intermediate and ancillary parameters and geolocation informations. OMAEROZ files are stored in EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5). Each file contains data from the day lit portion of an orbit (~53 minutes). OMAEROZ data files are based on Zoomed Level 1B radiance observations which are made once a month. Thus there is one day of zoomed data (approximately 14 orbits) per month. The maximum file size for the OMAEROZ data is about 11 Mbytes. A list of tools for browsing and extracting data from these files can be found at: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/tools.shtml A Readme document containing brief algorithm description and known data quality related issues and file spec are provided by the OMAERO Algorithm lead (see documents available from OMI product site http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/data-holdings/OMI/omaeroz_v003.shtml The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) launched on NASA Aura satellite in July 2004, has been providing daily global measurements of clouds, atmospheric pollutants (Ozone, Nitrogen dioxide, Sulfur-dioxide, HCHO and Aerosols from biomass burning and industrial emissions), BrO and OClO for tracking ozone depletion and surface UV irradiance. OMI is a contribution of the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) in collaboration with Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI), to the US EOS-Aura Mission. The principal investigator's (Dr. Pieternel Levelt) institute is the KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). For more information on Ozone Monitoring Instrument and atmospheric data products, please visit the OMI-Aura sites: http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and http://www.knmi.nl/omi/research/documents/ For the full set of Aura products available from the GES DISC, please visit: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/index.shtml Atmospheric Composition data from Aura and other satellite sensors can be ordered from the following sites: http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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REFERENCE: Ahmad, S. P., P. F. Levelt, P. K. Bhartia, E. Hilsenrath, G. W. Leppelmeier, and J. E. Johnson, "Atmospheric Products from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)", Proceedings of SPIE conference on Earth Observing Systems VIII, San Diego, California, Aug 3-8, 2003. [Full-Text] http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/ozone/docs/omi-spie-2003.doc Curier, R. L., J. P. Veefkind, R. Braak, B. Veihelmann, O. Torres, and G. de Leeuw; “Retrieval of aerosol optical properties from OMI radiances using a multiwavelength algorithm: Application to western Europe.”, J. Geophys. Res., 2008, 113, D17S90; doi:10.1029/2007JD008738. Abstract (html). de Haan, Levelt, P. F., B. van den Oord, E. Hilsenrath, G. W. Leppelmeier, P.K. Bhartia, A. Malkki, H. Kelder, R. J. van der A, E. J. Brinksma, R. van Oss, P. Veefkind, M. van Weele, and R. Noordhoek, "Science Objectives of EOS-Aura's Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)", Proc. Quad. Ozone Symposium, Kos, Greece, pp. 127-128, 2004. de Vries, B. Kruizinga, H. Visser, P. Levelt, G. H. J. van den Oord, A. Maelkki, G. Leppelmeier, E. Hilsenrath;"Ozone monitoring with the OMI instrument"; Proceedings of the SPIE's 45th Annual Meeting (Imaging Spectrometry VI: Sensor Applications). The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego CA, USA, 334-343, 2000 Levelt, P.F., G.H.J. van den Oord, M.R. Dobber, A. Malkki, H. Visser, J. de Vries, P. Stammes, J. Lundell and H. Saari, The Ozone Monitoring Instrument, IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 2006, Vol. 44, No. 5, 1093-1101, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.872333. Levelt, P.F., E. Hilsenrath, G.W. Leppelmeier, G.H.J. van den Oord, P.K. Bhartia, J. Tamminen, J.F. de Haan en J.P. Veefkind, Science Objectives of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 2006, Vol. 44, No. 5, 1199-1208, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.872336. Levelt, P.F., J. P. Veefkind, R. H. M. Voors, and J. de Vries, "Instrument Description", Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document: OMI Instrument, Level 0 - 1B processor, Calibration Operations, P. F. Levelt (ed.), vol. I, ATBD-OMI-01, version 2, Aug. 2002. http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atbd/ATBD-OMI-01.pdf Livingston, J. M., Redemann, J., Russell, P. B., Torres, O., Veihelmann, B., Veefkind, P., Braak, R.. Smirnov, A., Remer, L., Bergstrom, R. W., Coddington, O., Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Johnson, R., and Zhang, Q.;Comparison of aerosol optical depths from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura with results from airborne sunphotometry, other space and ground measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX-B., Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2009, 9(18), 6743-6765; Schoeberl, M.R., A.R. Douglass, E. Hilsenrath, P.K. Bhartia, R. Beer, J.W.Waters, M.R. Gunson, L. Froidevaux, J.C. Gille, J.J. Barnett, P.F. Levelt and P. DeCola, Overview of the EOS aura mission, IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 2006,Vol. 44, No. 5, 1066-1074, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2005.861950. Schoeberl, M.R., A.R. Douglass, E. Hilsenrath, P.K. Bhartia, J. Barnett, J. Gille, R. Beer, M. Gunson, J. Waters, P.F. Levelt,P. DeCola, "The EOS Aura Mission," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 85 , Number 18, 4 May 2004. [ Preprint] http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/project/eos-agu-aura-article.pdf Torres, O., R. Decae, J.P. Veefkind, and G. de Leeuw, OMI Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm, in OMI Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document: Clouds, Aerosols, and Surface UV Irradiance, Vol. 3, version 2, (OMI-ATBD-03, P. Stammes, Ed.), http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ eos_homepage/for_scientists/atbd/docs/OMI/ATBDOMI-03.pdf, 2002. Veihelmann, B., P. F Levelt, P. Stammes and J. P Veefkind, Simulation Study of the Aerosol Information Content in OMI Spectral Reflectance Measurements, Atm. Chem. Phys., 2007, 7, 3115-3127; doi:10.5194/acp-7-3115-2007.

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This data is based on an improved V003 algorithm. However, this product is not fully validated yet. Before using it in any publication please check the data quality issues, current known problems and updates available from GES DISC OMAEROZ product web page http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/OMI/omaeroz_v003.shtml

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