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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. The scientific objective of the SAM II experiment was to develop a stratospheric aerosol database for the polar regions by measuring and mapping vertical profiles of the atmospheric extinction due to aerosols. This database allows for studies of aerosol changes due to seasonal and short-term meteorological variations, atmospheric chemistry, cloud microphysics, and volcanic activity and other perturbations. The results obtained are useful in a number of applications, particularly the evaluation of any potential climatic effect caused by stratospheric aerosols.
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.
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- Date (Publication)
- 1993-12-10T02:24:59
- Date (Creation)
- 1993-12-10T02:24:59
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4be22f465e970f2ef8423bcaf3272bf6
- Citation identifier
- NASA Langley Research Center Distributed Active Archive Center (LaRC DAAC) / 4be22f465e970f2ef8423bcaf3272bf6
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NASA Langley Research Center (NASA Langley)
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Author National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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McCormick, M. Patrick
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Powell, K.
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Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NASA Langley Research Center Distributed Active Archive Center (LaRC DAAC)
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- Keywords
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SAM II
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aerosol
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polar
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temperature
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pressure
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- 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 Contact data centre for format details.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4be22f465e970f2ef8423bcaf3272bf6 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/sam2/references.html BADC Doc: SAM 2 List of References
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Conformance result
- Title
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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
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Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4be22f465e970f2ef8423bcaf3272bf6 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
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series
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-07T03:26:04
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Point of contact
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