Monthly Aerosol Optical Properties from MERRA-2 Reanalysis

Global distribution of monthly aerosol optical properties (extinction, single scattering albedo and asymmetry parameter) created from the NASA MERRA-2 3-hourly reanalysis profiles of aerosol mixing ratio and relative humidity, and MERRA-2 species level aerosol optical properties for different humidities and spectral bands.

The data are meant to be used in climate models or for other applications requiring aerosol optical properties.