The ORNL DAAC announces the release of four products from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) for the SAFARI 2000 project. The data set "SAFARI 2000 MODIS MOD04_L2 Aerosol Data, GRANT Format, for Southern Africa" contains ambient aerosol optical thickness data for the period August 21, 2000, through September 26, 2000. The product "SAFARI 2000 MODIS MOD05_L2 Water Vapor Data, Binary Format, for Southern Africa" contains vertical column water vapor data for the period August 21, 2000, through September 20, 2000.
The data set "SAFARI 2000 MAPSS MOD04_L2 Aerosol Summary Data for Southern Africa" is a MODIS Atmosphere Products Subset Statistics (MAPSS) product containing a daily time series of aerosol data over 17 AERONET sunphotometer measurement sites in southern Africa for the period February 26, 2000, through December 31, 2001. The data set "SAFARI 2000 MAPSS MOD05_L2 Water Vapor Summary Data for Southern Africa" is a MAPSS product containing column water vapor amounts over 17 AERONET sunphotometer measurement sites in southern Africa for the period February 24, 2000, through March 4, 2002.
To access these S2K products, visit the DAAC's SAFARI 2000 web page.