Abstract

A global climatology of stratospheric aerosol properties and their temporal variations is evolving from the Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II (SAM II) experiment aboard the Nimbus 7 spacecraft launched Oct. 1978 and from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) aboard the Applications Explorer Mission II spacecraft launched Feb. 1979. This data set is being complemented by lidar systems at specific locations throughout the world. This paper describes the satellite experiments, their developing data sets, and lidar data from a fixed station at 37°N, 76°W.

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