Global Satellite-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology
The Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology, or GloSSAC, is a 38-year climatology of stratospheric aerosol properties focused on extinction coefficient measurements by the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) series of instruments through mid-2005 and on the Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System (OSIRIS) and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) data thereafter. Data from other space instruments and from ground-based, air and balloon borne instruments to fill in key gaps in the data set. The end result is a global and gap-free data set focused on aerosol extinction coefficient at 525 and 1020 nm and other parameters on an ‘as available’ basis.
Disciplines: Aerosols
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GloSSAC_1.1
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 1.1 |
Aerosols |
Spatial Coverage: (-80, 80), (-180, 180) Horizontal Resolution Range: 500 km - < 1000 km or approximately 5 degrees - < 10 degrees Vertical Resolution Range: 100 meters - < 1 km |
Temporal Coverage: 1979-01-01 - 2016-12-31 Temporal Resolution Range: Monthly Climatology |
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GloSSAC_2.0
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.0 |
Aerosols |
Spatial Coverage: (-80, 80), (-180, 180) Horizontal Resolution Range: 500 km - < 1000 km or approximately 5 degrees - < 10 degrees Vertical Resolution Range: 100 meters - < 1 km |
Temporal Coverage: 1979-01-01 - 2018-12-31 Temporal Resolution Range: Monthly Climatology |
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GloSSAC_2.1
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.1 |
Aerosols |
Spatial Coverage: (-80, 80), (-180, 180) |
Temporal Coverage: 1979-01-01 - 2020-12-31 |
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GloSSAC_2.2
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.2 |
Aerosols |
Spatial Coverage: (-80, 80), (-180, 180) Horizontal Resolution Range: 500 km - < 1000 km or approximately 5 degrees - < 10 degrees Vertical Resolution Range: 100 meters - < 1 km |
Temporal Coverage: 1979-01-01 - 2021-12-31 Temporal Resolution Range: Monthly Climatology |
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GloSSAC_2.21
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.21 |
Aerosols |
Spatial Coverage: (-80, 80), (-180, 180) |
Temporal Coverage: 1979-01-01 - 2022-12-31 |
GloSSAC Citations
Kovilakam, Mahesh; Thomason, Larry; Knepp, Travis (2023). SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its impact on GloSSAC.
Konopka, Paul; Tao, Mengchu; Ploeger, Felix; Hurst, Dale F.; Santee, Michelle L.; Wright, Jonathon S.; Riese, Martin (2022). Stratospheric Moistening After 2000.
Ball, William T.; Chiodo, Gabriel; Abalos, Marta; Alsing, Justin; Stenke, Andrea (2022). Inconsistencies between chemistry–climate models and observed lower stratospheric ozone trends since 1998.
Brock, Charles A.; Froyd, Karl D.; Dollner, Maximilian; Williamson, Christina J.; Schill, Gregory; Murphy, Daniel M.; Wagner, Nicholas J.; Kupc, Agnieszka; Jimenez, Jose L.; Campuzano-Jost, Pedro; Nault, Benjamin A.; Schroder, Jason C.; Day, Douglas A.; Price, Derek J.; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Schwarz, Joshua P.; Katich, Joseph M.; Wang, Siyuan; Zeng, Linghan; Weber, Rodney; Dibb, Jack; Scheuer, Eric; Diskin, Glenn S.; DiGangi, Joshua P.; Bui, ThaoPaul; Dean-Day, Jonathan M.; Thompson, Chelsea R.; Peischl, Jeff; Ryerson, Thomas B.; Bourgeois, Ilann; Daube, Bruce C.; Commane, Róisín; Wofsy, Steven C. (2021). Ambient aerosol properties in the remote atmosphere from global-scale in situ measurements.
Kovilakam, Mahesh; Thomason, Larry W.; Ernest, Nicholas; Rieger, Landon; Bourassa, Adam; Millán, Luis (2021). The Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology (version 2.0): 1979–2018.
Ming, Alison; Hitchcock, Peter (2021). What Contributes to the Inter‐Annual Variability in Tropical Lower Stratospheric Temperatures?.
Steiner, A. K.; Ladstädter, F.; Randel, W. J.; Maycock, A. C.; Fu, Q.; Claud, C.; Gleisner, H.; Haimberger, L.; Ho, S.-P.; Keckhut, P.; Leblanc, T.; Mears, C.; Polvani, L. M.; Santer, B. D.; Schmidt, T.; Sofieva, V.; Wing, R.; Zou, C.-Z. (2018). Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018.
Thomason, Larry W.; Ernest, Nicholas; Millán, Luis; Rieger, Landon; Bourassa, Adam; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Manney, Gloria; Luo, Beiping; Arfeuille, Florian; Peter, Thomas (2018). A global space-based stratospheric aerosol climatology: 1979–2016.
Feinberg, Aryeh; Sukhodolov, Timofei; Luo, Bei-Ping; Rozanov, Eugene; Winkel, Lenny H. E.; Peter, Thomas; Stenke, Andrea (2017). Improved tropospheric and stratospheric sulfur cycle in the aerosol–chemistry–climate model SOCOL-AERv2.
Stocker, Matthias; Ladstädter, Florian; Wilhelmsen, Hallgeir; Steiner, Andrea K. (2017). Quantifying Stratospheric Temperature Signals and Climate Imprints From Post‐2000 Volcanic Eruptions.
Rousseau-Rizzi, Raphaël; Emanuel, Kerry (2016). Natural and anthropogenic contributions to the hurricane drought of the 1970s–1980s.
Zerefos, Christos; Kapsomenakis, John; Eleftheratos, Kostas; Tourpali, Kleareti; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Hubert, Daan; Godin-Beekmann, Sophie; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Frith, Stacey; Sofieva, Viktoria; Hassler, Birgit (2015). Representativeness of single lidar stations for zonally averaged ozone profiles, their trends and attribution to proxies.