Articles | Volume 19, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15023-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15023-2019
Research article
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11 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 11 Dec 2019

How should we aggregate data? Methods accounting for the numerical distributions, with an assessment of aerosol optical depth

Andrew M. Sayer and Kirk D. Knobelspiesse

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AERONET data portal NASA AERONET team https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov

EarthData data portal NASA EarthData portal team https://earthdata.nasa.gov

Nature Run data portal NASA GMAO https://g5nr.nccs.nasa. gov/data/

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Short summary
Data about the Earth are routinely obtained from satellite observations, model simulations, and ground-based or other measurements. These are at different space and timescales, and it is common to average them to reduce gaps and increase ease of use. The question of how the data should be averaged depends on the underlying distribution of the quantity. This study presents a method for determining how to appropriately aggregate data and applies it to data sets about atmospheric aerosol levels.
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