Catalogue of available data
The intense interest in aerosol influences on climate change has spurred a large number of campaigns over the past several years directed to one or another aspect of aerosol-climate interactions. Table 1 is a partial list of these campaigns, together with literature references and URLs to data sources and repositories.
Monitoring of shortwave atmospheric radiation and/or aerosol optical depth, in many instances coupled with local aerosol measurements, is pertinent to evaluation of aerosol influences on radiation. Table 1 is a partial list of these measurements, together with literature references and URLs to data sources and repositories.
TABLE A1: AEROSOL FIELD CAMPAIGNS (1995-2005)
Campaign/ location |
Parameters |
Reference/data archive |
Time |
SCAR-B (Amazonia) |
AOD, SSA, aerosol and cloud microphysics |
Dubovik et al . [1998]; Kaufman et al. [1998b]; Reid et al. [1998] http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ |
1995 |
ACE-1 and 2 (Southern Ocean south of Tasmania) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties, surface and vertical profiles, AOD |
Bates et al. [1998]; http://www.ofps.ucar/. edu/projects.html |
1995 |
TARFOX (Eastern USA, Atlantic) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties, surface and vertical profiles, AOD |
Russell et al . [1999]http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ |
1996 |
PEM Tropics A |
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm |
1996 |
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ACE-2 (Eastern North Atlantic) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties, surface and vertical profiles, AOD, radiative fluxes |
Raes et al. [2000], ultra.ei.jrc.it:8181 |
1997 |
PEM Tropics B |
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm |
1999 |
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AEROSOLS99 (Atlantic) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties at surface, AOD, lidar |
Bates et al. [2001];Voss et al.[2001] |
1999 |
INDOEX (South Asia, Indian Ocean) |
Aerosol and cloud microphysics, aerosol chemistry, AOD, radiative fluxes |
1999 |
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SAFARI 2000 (Southern Africa) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties, surface and vertical profiles, AOD, radiative fluxes |
2000 |
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PRIDE/PELTI 2000 (Caribbean) |
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRIDE/index.html http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/PRIDE/ |
2000 |
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TRACE-P |
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm |
2001 |
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ACE-Asia (East Asia, Western Pacific) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties, surface and vertical profiles, lidars, AOD |
2001 |
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MINOS (Mediterranean Sea) |
AOD, aerosol chemistry and microphysics, solar fluxes |
2001 |
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CLAMS (Chesapeake Bay) |
Aerosol and cloud microphysics, aerosol chemistry, AOD, radiative fluxes |
http://snowdog.larc.nasa.gov/ clams/index.html http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ HPDOCS/proj_sup.html |
2001 |
ITCT 2002 (west coast of US) |
Aerosol and cloud microphysics, aerosol chemistry, AOD, radiative fluxes |
http://www.al.noaa.gov/ WWWHD/pubdocs/ITCT/ |
2002 |
INTEX, ITCT 2004 (both coasts of US) |
Aerosol and cloud microphysics, aerosol chemistry, AOD, radiative fluxes |
http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/ singh/white_paper.pdf |
2004 |
West Africa Monsoon Experiment |
2005 |
TABLE A2 SYSTEMATIC AEROSOL/RADIATION MEASUREMENTS
Program/ location |
Parameters |
Reference/data archive |
Time |
Cape Grim (Tasmania) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties |
/inside/cgbaps/index.shtml |
1976-present |
GAW (22 sites) |
1989-present |
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BSRN (19 sites) |
1992-present |
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ARM SGP (Oklahoma) |
Radiative fluxes, aerosol surface chemistry/optics and vertical profiles |
Mather et al . [1998]; http://www.arm.gov/http://www/.cmdl.noaa.gov /aero/net/index.html |
1992-present |
AERONET (~100 sites worldwide) |
Spectral AOD, Spectral SSA, Angstrom exponent |
Holben et al . [1999; 2001];Dubovik et al.[2001]; http://aeronet/.gsfc.nasa.gov |
1993 – present |
NOAA baseline and regional stations (Barrow, Mauna Loa, Bondville) |
Aerosol optical and chemical properties |
http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ /aero/net/index.html |
1994-present |
ARM Barrow |
Radiative fluxes Co-located with NOAA baseline station |
Mather et al . [1998]; http://www.arm.gov/ |
1996-present |
ARM TWP (West Pacific) |
Radiative fluxes |
Mather et al . [1998]; http://www.arm.gov/ |
1997 – present |
MPL net (6 sites) |
Lidar profiles |
http://virl.gsfc.nasa.gov/mpl-net/ |
1998-present |
KCO (Arabian Sea) |
Spectral AOD, solar fluxes |
Satheesh et al. [1999] |
1998 – 2000 |
SOAR (8 ships) |
Radiative fluxes and AOD |
http://www.gim.bnl.gov/soar/index.html |
1998-present |
CARPOS (Southern California) |
AOD, solar fluxes, aerosol vertical profile |
http://www/-c4.ucsd.edu/ |
2000 – present |
Kosan (East China Sea) |
Aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties |
http://my/.dreamwiz.com/kosae/ http://www/.cmdl.noaa.gov /aero/net/index.html |
2001-present |
COSAM database |
Chemical data used for CTM evaluation |
Barrie et al., Tellus, 53, 615-645, 2001 |