GACP aerosol optical depth
Global Aerosol Climatology (GISS/NASA)
X axis: whole world in 360 1.00° steps,
first point at 179.50° W, last point at 179.50° E
Y axis: regular grid with 180 1.00° steps,
first point at 89.50° S, last point at 89.50° N
Z at 0.00
Monthly data available from Aug1981 to Dec2009 ( 341 months)
Variable tau (aerosol optical thickness at 550nm) in 1 Full metadata.
Apply monthly high/low-pass filter
Apply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
getfieldtype: please ask the administrator to add "tau" to the lists in getfieldtype
Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here,
GACP aerosol optical depth is available as
GrADS .ctl and gzipped
.dat
files (size 84.2926 MB) Alternatively, you can generate a netCDF file of the same size.