MLS/Aura Level 2 Diagnostics, Miscellaneous Grid V005 (ML2DGM) at GES DISC

Description

ML2DGM is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) product containing the minor frame diagnostic quantities on a miscellaneous grid. These include items such as tangent pressure, chi-square describing various fits to the measured radiances, number of radiances used in various retrieval phases, etc. This product contains a second auxiliary file which includes cloud-induced radiances inferred for selected spectral channels. The data version is 5.0. Data coverage is from August 8, 2004 to current. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 degrees to +82 degrees latitude), with each profile spaced 1.5 degrees or ~165 km along the orbit track (roughly 15 orbits per day). Vertical resolution varies between species and typically ranges from 3 - 6 km. Users of the ML2DGM data product should read the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 5 Quality Document for more information. The data are stored in the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format, or HDF5. Each file contains sets of HDF5 dataset objects (n-dimensional arrays) for each diagnostics measurement. The dataset objects represent data and geolocation fields; included in the file are file attributes and metadata. There are two files per day (MLS-Aura_L2AUX-DGM* and MLS-Aura_L2AUX-Cloud*).

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%2FAura%2FMLS%2FDATA2522
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML2DGM_005.html
21 Access the data via HTTP. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2DGM.005/
33 Data Quality and Description Document https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/v5-0_data_quality_document.pdf
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ML2DGM_005
22 ML2DGM_005.jpeg https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ML2DGM_005.jpeg
21 List of publications. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/publications.php
21 Users are encouraged to register with the MLS science team to obtain updates and information about this data product. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/forms/reguser.php
33 EOS MLS Retrieval Process Algorithm Theoretical Basis https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/eos_algorithm_atbd.pdf
21 MLS Science Team home page. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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