NASA ESDIS Project: Global Aerosol Simulations from FLEXPART

Global simulations of black carbon, mineral dust, and organic carbon aerosol concentrations and daily deposition generated by the FLEXPART Lagrangian particle dispersion model version 10.4. The data is hosted on AWS and requires an Earthdata Login account for access. The FLEXPART model code is open source and freely available.

Use Cases

• Modeling global black carbon transport and climate impact based on simulated concentration and deposition fields.
• Analyzing mineral dust source and sink regions based on global dust aerosol simulation data.
• Studying organic carbon aerosol lifecycle and atmospheric residence time from the provided model outputs.
• Validating satellite or ground-based aerosol measurements against global model simulations.

Strengths

• Simulations cover three major aerosol types: black carbon, mineral dust, and organic carbon.
• Data is generated by a specific, open-source model version (FLEXPART 10.4).
• Provides both concentration and daily deposition (wet+dry) data.
• Has a clear, standard open license (CC-BY-4.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

NASA ESDIS Project via aws_open_data.

Collection Method

Output from the FLEXPART Lagrangian particle dispersion model.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Global