Aqua/AIRS L3 Monthly Standard Physical Retrieval (AIRS+AMSU) 1 degree x 1 degree V7.0 at GES DISC

Description

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) AIRS constitutes an innovative atmospheric sounding group of infrared and microwave sensors. The AIRS Level 3 Monthly Gridded Retrieval Product contains standard retrieval means, standard deviations and input counts. Each file covers a calendar month. The mean values are simply the arithmetic means of the daily products, weighted by the number of input counts for each day in that grid box. The geophysical parameters have been averaged and binned into 1 x 1 deg grid cells, from -180.0 to +180.0 deg longitude and from -90.0 to +90.0 deg latitude. For each grid map of 4-byte floating-point mean values there is a corresponding 4-byte floating-point map of standard deviation and a 2-byte integer grid map of counts. The counts map provides the user with the number of points per bin that were included in the mean and can be used to generate custom multi-day maps from the daily gridded products. The thermodynamic parameters are: Skin Temperature (land and sea surface), Air Temperature at the surface, Profiles of Air Temperature and Water Vapor, Tropopause Characteristics, Column Precipitable Water, Cloud Amount/Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Reflectance, Emissivity, Surface Pressure, Cloud Vertical Distribution. The trace gases parameters are: Total Amounts and Vertical Profiles of Carbon Monoxide, Methane, and Ozone. The actual names of the variables in the data files should be inferred from the Processing File Description document.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FKUC55JEVO1SR
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/AIRX3STM_7.0.html
21 Access the data via HTTP. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aqua_AIRS_Level3/AIRX3STM.7.0/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/Aqua_AIRS_Level3/AIRX3STM.7.0/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=AIRX3STM+7.0
21 AIRS home page at NASA/JPL. General information on the AIRS instrument, algorithms, and other AIRS-related activities can be found. https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
21 AIRS Documentation Page https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=AIRS+Documentation
33 AIRS Version 7 Level 3 Product User Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/AIRS/V7_L3_User_Guide.pdf
33 Overview of the AIRS Mission: Instruments, Processing Algorithms, Products, and Documentation https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/AIRS/Overview_of_AIRS_Products_and_Documentation.pdf
34 Sample data of the "AIRS/Aqua Level 3 monthly standard physical retrieval product (AIRS/AMSU)". https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/AIRX3STM_7.0.png

Tags

  • atmospheric-radiation
  • altitude
  • land-surface
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • ocean-temperature
  • air-quality
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • surface-thermal-properties
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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