ARCTAS_Satellite_Data is the supplementary satellite data for the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft & Satellites sub-orbital campaign. Data from TES, MOPITT and OMI are featured in this data product and data collection is complete. The Arctic is a critical region in understanding climate change. The responses of the Arctic to environmental perturbations such as warming, pollution, and emissions from forest fires in boreal Eurasia and North America include key processes such as the melting of ice sheets and permafrost, a decrease in snow albedo, and the deposition of halogen radical chemistry from sea salt aerosols to ice. Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) was a field campaign that explored environmental processes related to the high degree of climate sensitivity in the Arctic. ARCTAS was part of NASA’s contribution to the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements, and Models of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport (POLARCAT) Experiment for the International Polar Year 2007-2008. ARCTAS had four primary objectives. The first was to understand long-range transport of pollution to the Arctic. Pollution brought to the Arctic from northern mid-latitude continents has environmental consequences, such as modifying regional and global climate and affecting the ozone budget. Prior to ARCTAS, these pathways remained largely uncertain. The second objective was to understand the atmospheric composition and climate implications of boreal forest fires; the smoke emissions from which act as an atmospheric perturbation to the Arctic by impacting the radiation budget and cloud processes and contributing to the production of tropospheric ozone. The third objective was to understand aerosol radiative forcing from climate perturbations, as the Arctic is an important place for understanding radiative forcing due to the rapid pace of climate change in the region and its unique radiative environment. The fourth objective of ARCTAS was to understand chemical processes with a focus on ozone, aerosols, mercury, and halogens. Additionally, ARCTAS sought to develop capabilities for incorporating data from aircraft and satellites related to pollution and related environmental perturbations in the Arctic into earth science models, expanding the potential for those models to predict future environmental change. ARCTAS consisted of two, three-week aircraft deployments conducted in April and July 2008. The spring deployment sought to explore arctic haze, stratosphere-troposphere exchange, and sunrise photochemistry. April was chosen for the deployment phase due to historically being the peak in the seasonal accumulation of pollution from northern mid-latitude continents in the Arctic. The summer deployment sought to understand boreal forest fires at their most active seasonal phase in addition to stratosphere-troposphere exchange and summertime photochemistry. During ARCTAS, three NASA aircrafts, the DC-8, P-3B, and BE-200, conducted measurements and were equipped with suites of in-situ and remote sensing instrumentation. Airborne data was used in conjunction with satellite observations from AURA, AQUA, CloudSat, PARASOL, CALIPSO, and MISR. The ASDC houses ARCTAS aircraft data, along with data related to MISR, a satellite instrument aboard the Terra satellite which provides measurements that provide information about the Earth’s environment and climate.

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LARC_ASDC Short Name: ARCTAS_Satellite_Data Version ID: 1 Unique ID: C2449529636-LARC_ASDC

The OMI observations provide the following capabilities and features: • A mapping of ozone columns at 13 km x 24 km and profiles at 13 km x 48 km • A measurement of key air quality components: NO2, SO2, BrO, HCHO, and aerosol • The ability to distinguish between aerosol types, such as smoke, dust and sulfates • The ability to measure aerosol absorption capacity in terms of aerosol absorption optical depth or single scattering albedo • A measurement of cloud pressure and coverage • A mapping of the global distribution and trends in UV-B radiation The OMI data are available in the following four levels: Level 0, Level 1B, Level 2, and Level 3. • Level 0 products are raw sensor counts. Level 0 data are packaged into two-hour "chunks" of observations in the life of the spacecraft (and the OMI aboard it) irrespective of orbital boundaries. They contain orbital swath data. • Level 1B processing takes Level 0 data and calibrates, geo-locates and packages the data into orbits. They contain orbital swath data. • Level 2 products contain orbital swath data. • Level 3 products contain global data that are composited over time (daily or monthly) or over space for small equal angle (latitude longitude) grids covering the whole globe.

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ESA Short Name: NASA_OMI Version ID: NA Unique ID: C1965336929-ESA

The ESA Climate Change Initiative Aerosol project has produced a number of global aerosol Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products from a set of European satellite instruments with different characteristics. This dataset comprises Level 3 Absorbing Aerosol Index (AAI) products, using the Multi-Sensor UVAI algorithm, Version 1.7. L3 products are provided as daily and monthly gridded products as well as a monthly climatology. For further details about these data products please see the linked documentation.

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FEDEO Short Name: 2e656d34d016414c8d6bced18634772c Version ID: NA Unique ID: C2548142580-FEDEO

The GEOS-5 FP-IT 3D Time-Averaged Model-Layer Assimilated Data Geo-Colocated to OMI/Aura UV2 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24km (OMUFPMET) product provides selected meteorlogical fields from the GEOS-5 Forward Processing for Instrument Teams (FP-IT) assimilated product produced by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) co-located in space and time with the OMI UV-2 swath. The fields in this product include layer pressure thickness, surface pressure, vertical temperature profiles, surface potential, and mid-layer pressure along with geolocation info. The OMI team also provides a corresponding product for the OMI VIS swath, OMVFPMET. The OMI ancillary products were developed to provide supplementary information for use with the OMI collection 4 L1B data sets. The original GEOS-5 FP-IT data are reported on a 0.625 deg longitude by 0.5 deg latitude grid, whereas the OMI UV-2 spatial resolution is 13km x 24km at nadir. The OMUFPMET files are in netCDF4 format which is compatible with most netCDF and HDF5 readers and tools. Each file is approximately 45mb in size. The lead for this product is Zachary Fasnacht of SSAI. Joanna Joiner is the responsible NASA official.

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GES_DISC Short Name: OMUFPMET Version ID: 004 Unique ID: C2556146042-GES_DISC

The GEOS-5 FP-IT 3D Time-Averaged Single-Level Diagnostics Geo-Colocated to OMI/Aura UV2 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24km (OMUFPSLV) provides selected parameters from GEOS-5 Forward Processing for Instrument Teams (FP-IT) assimilated product produced by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) co-located in space and time with the OMI UV-2 swath. The fields in this product include boundary layer top pressure, tropopause pressure, surface pressure, surface skin temperature, and vertical wind profiles at 10m. The OMI team also provides a corresponding product for the OMI VIS swath, OMVFPSLV. The product has been generated for convenient use by the OMI/Aura team in their L2 algorithms, and for research where those L2 products are used. The original GEOS-5 FP-IT data are reported on a 0.625 deg longitude by 0.5 deg latitude grid, whereas the OMI UV-2 spatial resolution is 13km x 24km at nadir. The OMUFPSLV files are in netCDF4 format which is compatible with most netCDF and HDF5 readers and tools. Each file is approximately 45mb in size. The lead for this product is Zachary Fasnacht of SSAI. Joanna Joiner is the responsible NASA official.

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GES_DISC Short Name: OMUFPSLV Version ID: 004 Unique ID: C2556147807-GES_DISC