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    • Earth Observatory Aerosol Optical Depth

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are called aerosols. Windblown dust, sea salts, volcanic ash, smoke from wildfires, and pollution from factories are all examples of aerosols. Depending upon their size, type, and location, aerosols can either cool the surface, or warm it. They can help clouds to form, or they can inhibit cloud formation. And if inhaled, some aerosols can be harmful to people’s health.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000032__1
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2020-01-29
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    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 5054775d-8947-4cc8-a90e-c23f47b0530f
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
    Old Spatial Earth
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9873609bdf73686c1c837f6e78910fb0a6699c575bd456d7f81319f009447f1d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2005-01-01/2013-01-01

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