ATMOS L2 Trace Gases on Altitude Grid, Fixed Field Format V3 (ATMOSL2AF) at GES DISC

Description

This is the version 3 Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) Level 2 product containing trace gases on a vertical altitude (km) grid with data stored in an ASCII table using a FORTRAN friendly fixed field format. ATMOS is an infrared spectrometer (a Fourier transform interferometer) designed to derive vertical concentrations of various trace gases in the atmosphere, particularly the ozone depleting chlorine and fluorine based molecules. Measured species include: H2O, CO2, O3, N2O, CO, CH4, NO and NO2 (both diurnally and not diurnally corrected), HNO3, HF, HCl, OCS, H2CO, HOCl, H2O2, HO2NO2, N2O5, ClONO2, HCN, CH3F, CH3Cl, CF4, CCl2F2, CCl3F, CCl4, COF2, C2H6, C2H2, N2, CHF2Cl, HCOOH, HDO, SF6 and CH3D reported at 100 levels from 0.5 to 99.5 km. Data files also include time, geolocation and other information. The data were collected during four space shuttle missions: STS-51B/Spacelab 3 (April 30 to May 1, 1985), STS-45/ATLAS-1 (March 25 to April 2, 1992), STS-55/ATLAS-2 (April 8 to 16, 1993), and STS-66/ATLAS-3 (November 3 to 12, 1994). Data are written to separate files grouped by mission (sl3, at1, at2 or at3), and occultation type (sunrise or sunset) and number. A similar product (ATMOSL2AT) exists that contains these same data in a spreadsheet friendly tab delimited format.

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%2FATMOS%2FDATA2002
21 ATMOS Home Page. https://remus.jpl.nasa.gov/atmos/atmos.html
21 List of publications. https://remus.jpl.nasa.gov/atmos/pub.list.html
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ATMOSL2AF_3.html
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ATMOSL2AF_3
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/ATMOS/ATMOSL2AF.3/
33 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/ATMOS/ATMOSL1.3/doc/README.ATMOS_V3.pdf
21 Version 3 ATMOS Algorithm Description https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.41.006968
34 ATMOS_Logo.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ATMOS_Logo.png

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • earth-science

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