MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Water Vapor (H2O) Mixing Ratio on Zonal and Similar Grids V005 (ML3DZH2O) at GES DISC

Description

ML3DZH2O is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) daily binned on zonal and assorted vertical grids product for water vapor (H2O) derived from radiances measured primarily by the 190 GHz radiometer. The data version is 5.1. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 to +82 degrees latitude) at 4 degree latitude zonal increments. The recommended useful vertical range is between 316 and 0.00215 hPa, and the vertical resolution is about 1.5 km at 316 hPa increasing to 3.5 km to 4.64 hPa, and degrades to 15 km above 0.1 hPa. Users of the ML3DZH2O data product should read chapter 4 and section 3.9 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 5 Quality Document for more information. The data files contain one year of data and are archived in the netCDF4 format, which is also compatible with HDF5 readers and tools. Each file contains four group objects: lat vs pressure zonal mean, lat vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, "equivalent latitude" vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, and vortex average vs "potential temperature". Each group has a set of data (average, min, max, std dev, rms) and geolocation fields, grid attributes, and metadata.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aura_MLS_Level3/ML3DZH2O.005/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/HDF-EOS5/Aura_MLS_Level3/ML3DZH2O.005/contents.html
33 Data Quality and Description Document https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/v5-0_data_quality_document.pdf
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
34 ML3DZH2O_005.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ML3DZH2O_005.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML3DZH2O_005.html
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAura%2FMLS%2FDATA%2F3568
21 MLS Science Team Home Page. https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ML3DZH2O_005

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

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