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AERDB_D3_ABI_G16·v1·dataset

Haze, dust and smoke in the air, daily (GOES-16)

ABI G16 Deep Blue L3 Daily Aerosol Data, 1 x 1 degree grid
atmosphere NASA LAADS Level 3 netCDF-4
In plain English

What it measures. Daily worldwide amounts of tiny particles in the air, such as dust, smoke, and haze (aerosols), summarized as averages and spread on a 1-degree grid.

How it's made. Derived from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the GOES-16 geostationary satellite using the Deep Blue method, averaging quality-checked readings for each grid cell each day.

How & where you'd use it. Useful for tracking air quality, dust storms, and wildfire smoke, and for studying how airborne particles affect weather and climate; this first release covers May 2019 through April 2020.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLS › AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESSATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLS › AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS › ANGSTROM EXPONENTATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLSATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLS › AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2019-05-01 → 2020-05-01
  • Measured byGOES-16 (ABI)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsnetCDF-4
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The ABI G16 Deep Blue L3 Daily Aerosol Data, 1 x 1 degree grid product, short-name AERDB_D3_ABI_G16, derived from the L2 (AERDB_L2_ABI_G16) input data, each D3 ABI/GOES-16 product is produced daily at 1 x 1-degree horizontal resolution. In general, in this daily L3 (identified in the short-name as D3) aggregated product, each data field represents the arithmetic mean of all cells whose latitude and longitude places them within the bounds of each grid element. Another statistic like standard deviation is also provided in some cases. The final retrievals used in the aggregation process are Quality Assurance (QA)-filtered best-estimate values for cells that are measured on the day of interest. Further, at least three such retrievals are required to render the validity of a grid cell on any given day. This first release of these products spans from May 2019 through April 2020 with a potential to generate additional temporal coverage in the future. The Level-3 (L3) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Deep Blue Daily Aerosol dataset is part of a 12-product suite produced by an Earth Science Research from Operational Geostationary Satellite Systems (ESROGSS)-funded project. The 12 products in this project include nine derived from three Geostationary Earth Observation (GEO) instruments and three from merged data from GEO and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) instruments. The AERDB_D3_ABI_G16 product, in netCDF4 format, contains 48 Science Data Set (SDS) layers.

Get the data

aerdb_d3_abi_g16_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="AERDB_D3_ABI_G16",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from LAADS
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.