Description
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Level 2 Near Real Time (NRT) Cloud-Cleared Infrared Radiances (AIRS-only) product (AIRS2CCF_NRT_7.0) differs from the routine product (AIRS2CCF_7.0) in four ways to meet the three hour latency requirements of the Land Atmosphere NRT Capability Earth Observing System (LANCE): (1) The NRT granules are produced without previous or subsequent granules if those granules are not available within 5 minutes, (2) the predictive ephemeris/attitude data are used rather than the definitive ephemeris/attitude, (3) if the forecast surface pressure is unavailable, a surface climatology is used, and (4) no ice cloud properties retrievals are performed. The consequences of these differences are described in the AIRS Near Real Time (NRT) data products document. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a grating spectrometer (R = 1200) aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. In combination with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), AIRS constitutes an innovative atmospheric sounding group of visible, infrared, and microwave sensors. This product is produced using AIRS IR only because the radiometric noise in AMSU channel 4 started to increase significantly (since June 2007). Cloud-Cleared Radiances contain calibrated, geolocated channel-by-channel AIRS infrared radiances (milliWatts/m2/cm-1/steradian) that would have been observed within each AMSU footprint if there were no clouds in the FOV and produced along with the AIRS Standard Product, as they are the radiances used to retrieve the Standard Product. Nevertheless, they are an order of magnitude larger in data volume than the remainder of the Standard Products and, many Standard Product users are expected to have little interest in the Cloud Cleared Radiance. For these reasons they are a separate output file.
The AIRS2CCF_NRT_7.0 products are stored in files (often referred to as "granules") that contain 6 minutes of data, 30 footprints across track by 45 lines along track.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | AIRS home page at NASA/JPL. General information on the AIRS instrument,algorithms, and other AIRS-related activities can be found. | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. | Open resource |
| View information related to this dataset | HTML | AIRS Documentation Page | Open resource |
| View information related to this dataset | HTML | AIRS Near Real Time (NRT) information | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through a directory map | HTML | Access the data via HTTPS. User registration is required. Register for a username and password at https://urs.eosdis.nasa.gov/users/new | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | Overview of the AIRS Mission: Instruments, Processing Algorithms, Products, and Documentation | Open resource | |
| View this dataset's user's guide | AIRS/AMSU/HSB Version 7 Level 2 Product User Guide | Open resource | |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Sample data of the "AIRS/Aqua Level 2 Cloud-Cleared Infrared (IR) Radiances Product". | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. | Open resource |