Vertical Profiles of Mineral Dust Aerosols from IASI (MAPIR algorithm version 5.11)

The data are vertical profiles of mineral dust aerosols from IASI (Metop-A and Metop-C) obtained with the Mineral Aerosol Profiling from Infrared Radiances (MAPIR) version 5.1 algorithm. This data set version 5.11 is an update with a bug correction in the dust AOD calculation from the vertical profile, and in the dust AOD uncertainty calculation from the profile uncertainty covariances matrices. The retrieval algorithm itself has not changed since version 5.1. The data available here is the level 2 data (at satellite pixel resolution).

Level 3 (gridded daily and monthly AM, PM and total) total column AOD and mean altitude are available through the Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu). Search for "dust", select "Aerosol properties gridded data from 1995 to present derived from satellite observations", in the download tab, select the sensor IASI on METOPA or METOPC and the MAPIR algorithm.

Algorithm description and validation: coming soon

Size: 220Mb per day

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Cite this as (APA format)

Vandenbussche, S., & De Maziere, M. (2025). Vertical Profiles of Mineral Dust Aerosols from IASI (MAPIR algorithm version 5.11) (Version 3) [Data set]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/F7EL2ZBR
Retrieved: 10:40 11 Mar 2026 (UTC)
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Author(s)
Principal

Vandenbussche, Sophieorcid, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Other(s)

De Maziere, Martineorcid, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy;
Contact data-contact of Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Technical info
Documentation

https://iasi.aeronomie.be/index.php/mineral-dust-aerosols

Temporal features
Starting

July 10, 2007
Ending /
Temporal resolution

P1D
Updating frequency

BIENNIAL

Additional info
Funding details

  • ESA Aerosol CCI phase 2 grant 4000109874/14/I-NB*

  • ESA PRODEX IASIFLOW (PEA 4000111402) and HIRS (PEA 4000134591 and 4000144088)

  • ECMWF COPERNICUS C3S_312a_Lot5, C3S_312b_lot2, C3S2_312a_lot2, C3S2_313a_lot2 grants*

  • Belspo Supplementary Researcher (grant nos. WE/35/Q07, R07 and S07)
Conforms to

NetCDF version 4 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6
Repository homepage

https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/
Last Updated

February 24, 2026
Created

June 27, 2025

Spatial features