Aerosol Optical Depth over the Atlantic Ocean at buoy sites M3 and M4 from January 2015 to May 2016

• Main Authors: van der Does, Michèlle, Brummer, Geert-Jan A, Korte, Laura F, Stuut, Jan-Berend W
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Aerosol optical depth; Calculated 10-day running average; DATE/TIME; dust-collecting buoys; Event label; M3_buoy_site; M4_buoy_site; North Atlantic Ocean; Saharan dust; SAT; Satellite remote sensing; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.922899; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922899

Aerosol Optical Depth was obtained from the NASA MODIS Terra satellite, via the Giovanni online data system https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/, developed and maintained by the NASA GES DISC (Acker & Leptough, 2017). We obtained this for the buoy locations M3 and M4, at 1x1 degree boxes aro...