AEROSAT International Satellite Aerosol Science Network

Aerosol Links

Satellite Aerosol Projects

• Climate Change Initiative - Aerosol_CCI project (ESA)
• Global Aerosol Climatology Project (NASA/GEWEX)

• Sat-ACPC- Remote observation of aerosol-­cloud-precipitation-­climate interactions

• WMO-GAW Aerosols
• WDC-RSAT -World Data Centre for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (DLR/WMO)
• SPARC Data Initiative - Trace Gas and Aerosol Climatologies (WCRP)
• Bacchus (EC/FP7) - EU project on aerosol-cloud interactions 
  
• GlobAerosol (ESA, completed in 2009)
• PROMOTE - GMES Atmosphere (ESA, completed in 2010)

Satellite Aerosol Data

• Inventory of satellite aerosol data sets - (WDC-RS/WMO-GAW/DLR)

Satellite Missions

Future

• S-GLI (JAXA)

• Himawari-8 (JMA)
• ADM-Aeolus (ESA)
• Sentinel-5P (ESA/EC)
• Sentinel-3 (ESA/EUMETSAT/EC)

• EarthCARE (ESA/JAXA)

• SAGE-III on ISS (NASA)

Current

• VIIRS (NOAA)

• MISR (NASA)
• MODIS (NASA)
• CALIPSO (NASA/CNES)
• MSG (EUMETSAT/ESA)
• MetOp (EUMETSAT/ESA)
• OMI (NIVR/FMI/NASA)
• GOES (NOAA)

• AVHRR (NOAA/EUMETSAT)

Past

Aerosol Modelling Projects

• AeroCom - Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models

• ICAP - International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction

• MACC - Copernicus Atmosphere Service (ECMWF/EC) 

Ground Based Observations

• AERONET - Aerosol Robotic Network (NASA/CNRS)
• GALION - Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Lidar Observation Network
• MPLNET - Micro Pulse Lidar Network (NOAA)
• EARLINET - European Research Aerosol Lidar Network (EC)
• MAN - Maritime Aerosol Network (NASA)
• WDC - World Data Centre for Aerosols (NILU/WMO)

Air Quality

• IDEA - Infusing Satellite Data into Environmental Applications (NOAA/NASA) 
• GlobEmission (ESA)

Fire

• FEER - Fire Energetics and Emissions Research (NASA)
• ATSR World Fire Atlas (ESA)

Sea Spray

• OceanFlux Sea-Spray Aerosol (FMI/ESA)

Dust

• Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (WMO)

Volcano

• SAVAA - Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance (NILU/ESA)
• VAST - Volcanic Ash Strategic Initiative Team (NILU/ESA)
• Volcano Watch (U. Wisconsin-Madison)