GOMOS AERGOM extinction profile record. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: reduction in uncertainty of the quantitative role of aerosols in climate forcing; validate and improve the capability of climate simulation models and reanalyses to represent aerosol effects; monitoring volcanic ash and forecasting its dispersion for aviation; polar stratospheric clouds. OFFICIAL CITATION: dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs8050421 (Popp, et al., Development, Production and Evaluation of Aerosol Climate Data Records from European Satellite Observations (Aerosol_cci), Remote Sensing, 8, 421, 2016)