Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-Asia): Physical, optical, and chemical properties of atmospheric marine aerosols aboard NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown in the western Pacific, 2001-03-15 to 2001-04-20 (NCEI Accession 0311457)

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This dataset contains physical, optical, and chemical properties of atmospheric marine aerosols from aboard NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown, collected 15 March to 20 April 2001 during the ACE-Asia field campaign. The data is divided into seven csv datasets, summarized as follows: Main - Navigation, Meteorology, and Scattering; Chemistry - Aerosol species concentrations at varying particle diameters; DMS - Seawater Dimethyl sulfide; AOD - Aerosol optical depth at varying wavelengths; Size Distribution (APS) - Aerodynamic Particle Size Distribution; Size Distribution (DMPS) - Differential Mobility Particle Size Distribution; Size Distribution - Merged version of the APS and DMPS datasets

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title	Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-Asia): Physical, optical, and chemical properties of atmospheric marine aerosols aboard NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown in the western Pacific, 2001-03-15 to 2001-04-20 (NCEI Accession 0311457)

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