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Tag: QCAOD

  • New Journal Article Highlights ARM Aerosol Data Set

    Value-added product leverages long-term Southern Great Plains data The Quality Control Aerosol Optical Depth (QCAOD) value-added product combines individual aerosol optical depth records provided by the Cimel sunphotometer (left), multifilter rotating shadowband radiometers (middle), and normal incidence multifilter radiometer (right). A March 2021 article in the journal Scientific Data presents two decades of aerosol data…

  • New Quality Control Aerosol Optical Depth VAP Released

    These time series show the combined aerosol optical depth (AOD, green) and its four individual components (red, blue, wine, and cyan) during a three-hour period on May 11, 2008, at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. This example defines a “favorable” case in which all four individual AODs are assessable and the spread between them…