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H08 Deep Blue Level 3 daily aerosol data, 1x1 degree grid

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

The H08 Deep Blue Level 3 daily aerosol data, 1x1 degree grid product, short-name AERDB_D3_AHI_H08, derived from the L2 (AERDB_L2_AHI_H08) input data, each D3 AHI/Himawari-8 product is produced daily at 1 x 1-degree horizontal resolution. In general, in this daily L3 (identified in the short-name as D3) aggregated product, each data field represents the arithmetic mean of all cells whose latitude and longitude places them within the bounds of each grid element. Another statistic like standard deviation is also provided in some cases. The final retrievals used in the aggregation process are Quality Assurance (QA)-filtered best-estimate values for cells that are measured on the day of interest. Further, at least three such retrievals are required to render the validity of a grid cell on any given day. 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-3 (L3) Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) Himawari-8 Deep Blue Daily Aerosol 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_D3_AHI_H08 product, in netCDF4 format, contains 48 Science Data Set (SDS) layers. For more information consult LAADS product description page at: https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/products/AERDB_D3_AHI_H08 Or, Deep Blue aerosol project webpage at: https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/climate/data/deep-blue

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/LAADS;UWI-MAD/SSEC/ASIPS
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/ESROGSS/AERDB_D3_AHI_H08.001
Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id b96d62ad-3e22-4628-a31c-9df35485d286
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Old Spatial {"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 4548f5a8d9f4f3ae6b117d1c520238ec1b3d4194b88f5d06699dfac61c6f957c
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2019-05-01/2020-05-01

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