Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II (SAM II): Polar Arctic and Antarctic Aerosol Extinction Profiles

The SAM II instrument, aboard the Earth-orbiting Nimbus 7 spacecraft, was designed to measure solar irradiance attenuated by aerosol particles in the Arctic and Antarctic stratosphere.

This dataset collection contains 14 years of polar Arctic and Antarctic aerosol extinction profiles, atmospheric temperature and pressure data obtained from the Stratospheric Aerosol Instrument II (SAM II) on the NIMBUS 7 satellite.

Date (Publication): 2007-02-06T00:35:52

Date (Creation): 2007-02-06T00:35:52

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/20959cc60f1dda630df224d73e7b5d8c

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 20959cc60f1dda630df224d73e7b5d8c

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	McCormick, M. Patrick	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Powell, K.	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
unknown		unknown	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

SAM II
aerosol
polar
temperature
pressure

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1978-10-28T23:00:00

End date: 1993-12-18T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are ASCII formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/20959cc60f1dda630df224d73e7b5d8c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/CDs/sam2/SAM2DATA	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/step/references.htmlhttps://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/sam2/references.html	BADC Doc: SAM 2 List of References

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data obtained from the Stratospheric Aerosol Instrument II (SAM II) on the NIMBUS 7 satellite. Data collected and prepared by NASA and published on CD-ROM. BADC obtained a copy to make available in the BADC archives to assist users wishing to access these data.

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File identifier: 20959cc60f1dda630df224d73e7b5d8c XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II (SAM II): Polar Arctic and Antarctic Aerosol Extinction Profiles
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-11-17T03:01:52

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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