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GOES16 ABI Deep Blue Aerosol L2

Published by NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/LAADS;UWI-MAD/SSEC/ASIPS | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: September 02, 2026 at 12:42 AM | Dataset Last Updated: August 25, 2026
The Level-2 (L2) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Deep Blue Aerosol Full-Disk 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 as summarized in the following table: | Platform | Instrument | Temporal Cadence | Spatial Res. | Product | | :-------: | :----------: | :------------------: | :-----------: | :-------: | | **GOES-16** | **Advanced Baseline Imager** | **30 Min.** | **10 km** | **AERDB_L2_ABI_G16** | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | 30 Min. | 10 km | AERDB_L2_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | 30 Min. | 10 km | AERDB_L2_AHI_H08 | | GOES-16 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_ABI_G16 | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_AHI_H08 | | GOES-16 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_ABI_G16 | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_AHI_H08 | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | 30 Min. | 0.25˚ x 0.25˚ | AERDB_L2G_GEOLEO_Merged | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_GEOLEO_Merged | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_GEOLEO_Merged | \* includes G16-ABI, G17-ABI, H08-AHI, SNPP-VIIRS, NOAA20-VIIRS, Terra MODIS & Aqua MODIS Each L2 ABI/GOES-16 product is produced every 30 minutes and contains full-disk observation data. The L2 data products comprise 10 x 10 native GEO pixels. Each spectral band with 0.5 km or 2 km resolution is downscaled or upscaled to a nominal ~1 km horizontal pixel size in the production process. To distinguish them from native instrument pixels, these 10 x 10 aggregated pixels are also called retrieval pixels. Therefore, the L2 products’ image dimensions are roughly 10 km x 10 km at the sub-satellite point and are larger away from that point because of the combined effects of the sensor’s scanning geometry and Earth’s curvature. This first release of these products spans from May 2019 through April 2020 with a potential to generate additional temporal coverage in the future. Each L2 ABI/GOES-16 datafile contains 51 Science Data Sets (SDS) that include the following: 1. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Expected_Uncertainty_Land 2. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Expected_Uncertainty_Ocean 3. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land 4. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Best_Estimate 5. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Ocean 6. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Ocean_Best_Estimate 7. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Ocean 8. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Ocean_Best_Estimate 9. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_STDV_Land 10. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_STDV_Ocean 11. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_QA_Flag_Land 12. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_QA_Flag_Ocean 13. Aerosol_Type_Ocean 14. Algorithm_Flag_Land 15. Algorithm_Flag_Ocean 16. Angstrom_Exponent_Land 17. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Best_Estimate 18. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Ocean 19. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Ocean_Best_Estimate 20. Angstrom_Exponent_Ocean 21. Angstrom_Exponent_Ocean_Best_Estimate 22. Cell_Average_Elevation_Land 23. Cell_Average_Elevation_Ocean 24. Fine_Mode_Fraction_550_Ocean 25. Fine_Mode_Fraction_550_Ocean_Best_Estimate 26. Idx_Atrack 27. Idx_Xtrack 28. Land_Bands 29. Latitude 30. Longitude 31. NDVI 32. Number_Of_Pixels_Used_Land 33. Number_Of_Pixels_Used_Ocean 34. Number_Valid_Pixels 35. Ocean_Bands 36. Ocean_Sum_Squares 37. Precipitable_Water 38. Reflectance_Bands 39. Relative_Azimuth_Angle 40. Scattering_Angle 41. Solar_Zenith_Angle 42. Spectral_Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_Land 43. Spectral_Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_Ocean 44. Spectral_Surface_Reflectance 45. Spectral_TOA_Reflectance_Land 46. Spectral_TOA_Reflectance_Ocean 47. Total_Column_Ozone 48. Unsuitable_Pixel_Fraction_Land_Ocean 49. Viewing_Zenith_Angle 50. Wind_Direction 51. Wind_Speed

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description The Level-2 (L2) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Deep Blue Aerosol Full-Disk 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 as summarized in the following table: | Platform | Instrument | Temporal Cadence | Spatial Res. | Product | | :-------: | :----------: | :------------------: | :-----------: | :-------: | | **GOES-16** | **Advanced Baseline Imager** | **30 Min.** | **10 km** | **AERDB_L2_ABI_G16** | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | 30 Min. | 10 km | AERDB_L2_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | 30 Min. | 10 km | AERDB_L2_AHI_H08 | | GOES-16 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_ABI_G16 | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_AHI_H08 | | GOES-16 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_ABI_G16 | | GOES-17 | Advanced Baseline Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_ABI_G17 | | Himawari-8 | Advanced Himawari Imager | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_AHI_H08 | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | 30 Min. | 0.25˚ x 0.25˚ | AERDB_L2G_GEOLEO_Merged | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | Daily | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_D3_GEOLEO_Merged | | Multiple* | ABI, AHI, VIIRS, MODIS* | Monthly | 1˚ x 1˚ | AERDB_M3_GEOLEO_Merged | \* includes G16-ABI, G17-ABI, H08-AHI, SNPP-VIIRS, NOAA20-VIIRS, Terra MODIS & Aqua MODIS Each L2 ABI/GOES-16 product is produced every 30 minutes and contains full-disk observation data. The L2 data products comprise 10 x 10 native GEO pixels. Each spectral band with 0.5 km or 2 km resolution is downscaled or upscaled to a nominal ~1 km horizontal pixel size in the production process. To distinguish them from native instrument pixels, these 10 x 10 aggregated pixels are also called retrieval pixels. Therefore, the L2 products’ image dimensions are roughly 10 km x 10 km at the sub-satellite point and are larger away from that point because of the combined effects of the sensor’s scanning geometry and Earth’s curvature. This first release of these products spans from May 2019 through April 2020 with a potential to generate additional temporal coverage in the future. Each L2 ABI/GOES-16 datafile contains 51 Science Data Sets (SDS) that include the following: 1. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Expected_Uncertainty_Land 2. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Expected_Uncertainty_Ocean 3. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land 4. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Best_Estimate 5. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Ocean 6. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Land_Ocean_Best_Estimate 7. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Ocean 8. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_Ocean_Best_Estimate 9. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_STDV_Land 10. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_550_STDV_Ocean 11. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_QA_Flag_Land 12. Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_QA_Flag_Ocean 13. Aerosol_Type_Ocean 14. Algorithm_Flag_Land 15. Algorithm_Flag_Ocean 16. Angstrom_Exponent_Land 17. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Best_Estimate 18. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Ocean 19. Angstrom_Exponent_Land_Ocean_Best_Estimate 20. Angstrom_Exponent_Ocean 21. Angstrom_Exponent_Ocean_Best_Estimate 22. Cell_Average_Elevation_Land 23. Cell_Average_Elevation_Ocean 24. Fine_Mode_Fraction_550_Ocean 25. Fine_Mode_Fraction_550_Ocean_Best_Estimate 26. Idx_Atrack 27. Idx_Xtrack 28. Land_Bands 29. Latitude 30. Longitude 31. NDVI 32. Number_Of_Pixels_Used_Land 33. Number_Of_Pixels_Used_Ocean 34. Number_Valid_Pixels 35. Ocean_Bands 36. Ocean_Sum_Squares 37. Precipitable_Water 38. Reflectance_Bands 39. Relative_Azimuth_Angle 40. Scattering_Angle 41. Solar_Zenith_Angle 42. Spectral_Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_Land 43. Spectral_Aerosol_Optical_Thickness_Ocean 44. Spectral_Surface_Reflectance 45. Spectral_TOA_Reflectance_Land 46. Spectral_TOA_Reflectance_Ocean 47. Total_Column_Ozone 48. Unsuitable_Pixel_Fraction_Land_Ocean 49. Viewing_Zenith_Angle 50. Wind_Direction 51. Wind_Speed
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temporal 2019-05-01/2020-05-01
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title GOES16 ABI Deep Blue Aerosol L2

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