Description

The Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology, or GloSSAC, is a 43-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 later from mid-2017 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.

DOI

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Citation Styles for this Dataset

Publications which Cite this Collection

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Thomason, Larry W.; Knepp, Travis (2023). Quantifying SAGE II (1984–2005) and SAGE III/ISS (2017–2022) observations of smoke in the stratosphere.

Kovilakam, Mahesh; Thomason, Larry; Knepp, Travis (2023). SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its impact on GloSSAC.

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROFESSIONAL HOME PAGE

SSiRC Activity Summary

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION POLICY

• Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0
• How to cite ASDC data

DATA QUALITY

• GloSSAC Product Quality Summary

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for GloSSAC

READ-ME

• GloSSAC Readme File

USER'S GUIDE

• GloSSAC Project Guide Document

Keywords

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