MLS/Aura Level 2 Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) Mixing Ratio V005 (ML2HCL) at GES DISC

Description

ML2HCL is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) standard product for hydrogen chloride derived from radiances measured primarily by the 640 GHz radiometer. The data version is 5.0. 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). The recommended useful vertical range is from 100 to 0.316 hPa, and the vertical resolution is between 3 and 6 km. Users of the ML2HCL data product should read section 3.10 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 5 Quality Document for more information. The data are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5), which is based on the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format, or HDF-5. Each file contains two swath objects (profile and column data), each with a set of data and geolocation fields, swath attributes, and metadata.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Access the data via HTTP. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2HCL.005/
21 MLS Science Team Home Page. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/
34 ML2HCL_005.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ML2HCL_005.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML2HCL_005.html
21 List of publications. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/publications.php
33 EOS MLS Retrieval Process Algorithm Theoretical Basis https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/eos_algorithm_atbd.pdf
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/HDF-EOS5/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2HCL.005/contents.html
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ML2HCL_005
33 Data Quality and Description Document https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/v5-0_data_quality_document.pdf
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
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAura%2FMLS%2FDATA2509

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • earth-science

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