Polar-AOD: gestione utenti, informazioni e repository

Analyses of measurements carried out in polar regions indicate significant contrasts in aerosol concentrations as well as spectral signatures, highlighting the importance of assimilating similar data from many sites to better characterize aerosols spatially and temporally, and to gain a perspective on how aerosols differ from pole to pole. To meet the goal of producing a global aerosol climatology, historical and ongoing observations from all Antarctic and Arctic stations must be assimilated into a central archive and then be analyzed to characterize different species of aerosols and quantify their radiative impacts on climate.