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Easy Access to PMEL Scientific Data
The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory's ERDDAP data server for public access to scientific data |
NOAA OAR PMEL |
| Dataset Title: | PMEL Atmospheric Chemistry ACE-1 Aerosol Size Distribution, Leg1 data
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| Institution: | NOAA (Dataset ID: ACG_ACE-1_Discoverer_aerosol_sizedist_leg1) |
| Information: | Summary
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Attributes {
s {
time {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
Float64 actual_range 8.137224e+8, 8.159796e+8;
String axis "T";
String comment "Start of sampling period";
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Time";
String long_name "Datetime UTC";
String source_name "datetime_utc";
String standard_name "time";
String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
String time_precision "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
}
diameter {
Float64 actual_range 0.005, 10.0;
String coords "diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "midpoint Diameter(Stokes)";
String units "micrometers";
}
trajectory_id {
String cf_role "trajectory_id";
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Identifier";
String long_name "Trajectory ID";
}
latitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
Float64 actual_range -43.331500000000005, 39.153499999999994;
String axis "Y";
Float64 colorBarMaximum 90.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -90.0;
String coords "time";
String instrument "GPS";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Latitude";
String source "surface observation";
String standard_name "latitude";
String units "degrees_north";
Float64 valid_max 90.0;
Float64 valid_min -90.0;
}
longitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
Float64 actual_range -179.9835, 179.8655;
String axis "X";
Float64 colorBarMaximum 180.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -180.0;
String coords "time";
String instrument "GPS";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Longitude";
String source "surface observation";
String standard_name "longitude";
String units "degrees_east";
Float64 valid_max 180.0;
Float64 valid_min -180.0;
}
altitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Height";
String _CoordinateZisPositive "up";
Float64 actual_range 18.0, 18.0;
String axis "Z";
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "height above mean sea level";
String positive "up";
String standard_name "altitude";
String units "m";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dNdlogDp {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 0.02105003088326128, 22448.228276595742;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Statistics";
String long_name "Normalized particle number size distribution (Log-normal)";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer-1 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dlogDp {
Float64 actual_range 0.029998964837642673, 0.03384682094508542;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "diameter bin width";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer";
}
dN {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 6.680973851021292e-4, 721.3097833488257;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Statistics";
String long_name "Particle number size distribution";
String source "surface observation";
String units "cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dSdlogDp {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 0.012770114595363933, 1485.1367792586077;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Normalized particle surface area distribution (Log-normal)";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer2 micrometer-1 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dS {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 4.103312064821228e-4, 47.17632526937851;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Particle surface area size distribution";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer2 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dVdlogDp {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 5.320881081401639e-5, 251.2207534355451;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Normalized Particle volume distribution (Log-normal)";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer3 micrometer-1 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
dV {
Float64 _FillValue NaN;
Float64 actual_range 1.7097133603421783e-6, 7.974726987758951;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time diameter";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Particle volume size distribution";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer3 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
intN {
Float64 actual_range 0.0, 6189.468146789066;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Statistics";
String long_name "Integral Number Concentration";
String source "surface observation";
String units "cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
intS {
Float64 actual_range 0.0, 449.5104664593613;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Integral Surface Area Concentration";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer2 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
intV {
Float64 actual_range 0.0, 92.0251433760839;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Unknown";
String long_name "Integral Volume Concentration";
String source "surface observation";
String units "micrometer3 cm-3";
Float64 valid_min 0.0;
}
duration {
Int32 _FillValue 2147483647;
Int32 actual_range 1800, 1800;
String coords "time";
String ioos_category "Time";
String long_name "Duration";
String units "second";
}
}
NC_GLOBAL {
String cdm_data_type "Trajectory";
String cdm_trajectory_variables "trajectory_id";
String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3, NCCSV-1.0";
String creator_email "derek.coffman@noaa.gov";
String creator_name "Coffman, Derek";
String creator_url "https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/";
String dimensions "time=1255 diameter=105";
Float64 Easternmost_Easting 179.8655;
String featureType "Trajectory";
Float64 geospatial_lat_max 39.153499999999994;
Float64 geospatial_lat_min -43.331500000000005;
String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
Float64 geospatial_lon_max 179.8655;
Float64 geospatial_lon_min -179.9835;
String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
Float64 geospatial_vertical_max 18.0;
Float64 geospatial_vertical_min 18.0;
String geospatial_vertical_positive "up";
String geospatial_vertical_units "m";
String history
"2026-01-14T19:20:48Z (local files)
2026-01-14T19:20:48Z https://data.pmel.noaa.gov/pmel/erddap/tabledap/ACG_ACE-1_Discoverer_aerosol_sizedist_leg1.html";
String infoUrl "https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acg/data/index.html";
String institution "NOAA";
String keywords "above, ace, ace-1, aerosol, altitude, area, atmosphere, atmospheric, bin, chemistry, concentration, data, datetime, diameter, distribution, dlogDp, dNdlogDp, dSdlogDp, duration, dVdlogDp, earth, Earth Science > Atmosphere > Altitude > Station Height, environmental, height, identifier, integral, intN, intS, intV, laboratory, latitude, leg1, level, log, log-normal, longitude, marine, mean, midpoint, noaa, normal, normalized, number, pacific, particle, pmel, science, sea, size, station, statistics, stokes, surface, time, trajectory, trajectory_id, volume, width";
String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
String license "These data were produced by NOAA and are not subject to copyright protection in the United States. NOAA waives any potential copyright and related rights in these data worldwide through the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0).";
Float64 Northernmost_Northing 39.153499999999994;
String platform "Discoverer";
String product_version "0";
String project "ACE-1";
String sourceUrl "(local files)";
Float64 Southernmost_Northing -43.331500000000005;
String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
String subsetVariables "trajectory_id, altitude, duration";
String summary "Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Atmospheric Chemistry ACE-1 Aerosol Size Distribution - Leg1 data";
String time_coverage_end "1995-11-10T05:00:00Z";
String time_coverage_start "1995-10-15T02:00:00Z";
String title "PMEL Atmospheric Chemistry ACE-1 Aerosol Size Distribution, Leg1 data";
Float64 Westernmost_Easting -179.9835;
}
}
Data Access Protocol (DAP)
and its
selection constraints
.
The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.
Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names,
followed by a collection of
constraints (e.g., variable<value),
each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").
For details, see the tabledap Documentation.