Kuwano, Alexandra Meiko; Evan, Amato T.; Frouin, Robert; Barbero, Tyler (2024). Aerosol, Radiation, Meteorological, and Satellite Measurements 2019-2022. In Meteorological and Aerosol Measurements near the Salton Sea, California. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J00Z73G8

This object contains aerosol, radiometric, meteorological, and satellite measurements collected from various instrumentation at a sub-sea level field site located near the western shoreline of the Salton Sea, California (33.169011 N, -115.855960 E and -32 m AMSL) from November 2019 through December 2022 during clear-sky, daytime, and both dusty and non-dusty conditions. Aerosol products are obtained from a CIMEL sun photometer from the NASA Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). Here level 1.5 AERONET data processed by the version 3 AERONET algorithm is obtained. Also included are dusty observations that were erroneously classified as being cloudy as described and investigated in Evan et al. (2022), 'On the Misclassification of Dust as Cloud at an AERONET Site in the Sonoran Desert'. Surface radiometric products are obtained from two Kipp and Zonoen pyranometers and pyrgeometers mounted at this field site, and the full, all-sky dataset can be obtained from the "Measurements from Radiometers" data set in this collection. Satellite measurements are obtained from the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) level 2 data product obtained from the NASA Aqua, Terra, National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) and NOAA-20 sun-synchronous satellites. Data from CERES can be obtained from https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/, referenced via Wielicki, et al. (1996), 'Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth observing system experiment'. Meteorological products include particulate matter with diameters under 10 microns (PM10), accessed from the California Air Resources Board at https://www.arb.ca.gov/aqmis2/aqdselect.php. Also included are two masks, identifying which AERONET measurements are classified as being dusty or cloudy, both of which are based on AERONET and ceilometer measurements collected at the site. These data were collected in order to obtain space and ground-based measurements of shortwave and longwave radiative fluxes and aerosols at the site in the northwestern Sonoran Desert, near the Salton Sea. Please refer to Kuwano et al., 2024 (in review) for more details on processing and calibration.

• 2019-11 to 2022-12

• 2024

• Evan, Amato T.
• Kuwano, Alexandra Meiko

• Barbero, Tyler
• Frouin, Robert

Level 1.5 AERONET data processed by the version 3 AERONET algorithm were obtained. Surface radiometric data are logged via the Kipp and Zonen LOGBOX SE and Kipp and Zonen LOGBOX SE-software, version 1.10. CERES data were collected from NASA via their online tool, which can be accessed via https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/ (last accessed October 2022). Cloud and dust masks were created via MATLAB version R2022a.

Funding for this work was provided for by NSF Award AGS-1833173.

• Salton Sea (Calif.)
• Sonoran Desert

• Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET)
• Climate change science
• Dust
• Earth sciences
• Outgoing longwave radiation
• Pyranometer
• Pyrgeometer
• Surface longwave flux
• Surface shortwave flux

• data

• English

Identifier: Alexandra Meiko Kuwano: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-2257

Identifier: Amato Evan: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-3750

Identifier: Robert Frouin: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4770-389X

Identifier: Tyler Barbero: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-6904

Primary associated publication

• Kuwano, A. M., Evan, A., Walkowiak, B., and Frouin, R. (2024). Quantifying the dust direct radiative effect in the Southwestern United States: findings from multiyear measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss [preprint], in review. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2024-1

Source data

• AERONET Aerosol Optical Depth Data, Level 1.5, Salton Sea: https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_display_aod_v3?site=Salton_Sea&nachal=2&level=2&place_code=10
• NASA CERES Data Products (last accessed October 2022; see Readme for details): https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/

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