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AERDB_L2_ABI_G16·v1·dataset

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

GOES16 ABI Deep Blue Aerosol L2
atmosphere NASA LAADS Level 2 netCDF-4
In plain English

What it measures. How much haze, dust, and smoke is in the air across the satellite's full view of Earth, measured frequently throughout the day.

How it's made. Retrieved from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the GOES-16 weather satellite using the Deep Blue aerosol method, produced every 30 minutes for a roughly one-year span (2019-2020).

How & where you'd use it. Useful for following dust storms, smoke, and pollution as they evolve hour by hour, and contributes to a wider multi-satellite aerosol effort.

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 2
  • 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 Aerosol 10-Min L2 Full Disk product, short-name AERDB_L2_ABI_G16 is produced every 30 minutes and contains full-disk observation data. The L2 data products comprise 10 x 10 native GEO pixels. Each spectral band with 0.5 km or 2 km resolution is downscaled or upscaled to a nominal ~1 km horizontal pixel size in the production process. To distinguish them from native instrument pixels, these 10 x 10 aggregated pixels are also called retrieval pixels. Therefore, the L2 products’ image dimensions are roughly 10 km x 10 km at the sub-satellite point and are larger away from that point because of the combined effects of the sensor’s scanning geometry and Earth’s curvature. 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-2 (L2) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Deep Blue Aerosol Full-Disk 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_L2_ABI_G16 product, in netCDF4 format, contains 51 Science Data Set (SDS) layers.

Get the data

aerdb_l2_abi_g16_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="AERDB_L2_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.