Aerosol Optical Thickness

DESCRIPTIVE NAME SYN Aerosol Optical Thickness
VARIABLE NAME T550
PRODUCT LEVEL 2
DESCRIPTION Aerosol load, expressed in optical thickness at a wavelength of 550 nm, with associated error estimates. The grid of the dataset is the Level-1B OLCI image grid. The resolution is OLCI FR.
PRODUCT PARAMETERS
COVERAGE land
PACKAGING half-orbit
LATENCY NTC
UNITS dimensionless
RANGE 0.0 - 0.6
SAMPLING OLCI FR (260 m)
FORMAT 2-byte integer
APPENDED DATA Error estimate in AOD (2-byte integer)
FREQUENCY 1 dataset per half-orbit
SIZE Around 1 Gbyte for: rows=60,000 - columns=4,865 - orhphan=125
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
INPUT BANDS All S3 SYNERGY channels listed in SYN Level-2 Product.
ANCILLARY AND AUXILIARY DATA ECMWF (vertically integrated ozone column, vertically integrated water vapour column, surface pressure), SYN atmospheric correction lookup tables.

 

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