Sounder SIPS: AQUA AIRS IR-only Level 2 CLIMCAPS: Cloud Cleared Radiances V2 (SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR) at GES DISC

Description

WARNING: To users of the derived product “co_mmr_midtrop” (carbon monoxide mass mixing ratio to dry air [kg/kg] at ~500 hPa). This variable has a significant bias due to a conversion error: the molecular weight of carbon dioxide (CO2, 44.01 g/mol) was used instead of carbon monoxide (CO, 28.01 g/mol). To correct, simply multiply “co_mmr_midtrop” by 28.01/44.01. Alternatively, derive a profile of mass mixing ratio from scratch using the retrieved column density values (“mol_lay/co_mol_lay”) in the Level 2 files. For further questions or concerns please contact the Sounder SIPS at: sounder.sips@jpl.nasa.gov The CLIMCAPS (Community Long-term Infrared Microwave Coupled Product System) algorithm is used to analyze data from the AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder). The AIRS instrument is a grating spectrometer (R = 1200) aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. The AIRS CLIMCAPS Retrieval Product consists of retrieved estimates of cloud and surface properties, plus profiles of retrieved temperature, water vapor, ozone, carbon monoxide and methane. The temperature profile vertical resolution is 100 levels total between 1100 mb and 0.1 mb, while moisture profile is reported at atmospheric layers between 1100 mb and 300 mb. The horizontal resolution is 50 km. Cloud-Cleared Radiances contain calibrated, geolocated channel-by-channel AIRS infrared radiances (milliWatts/m2/cm-1/steradian) that would have been observed if there were no clouds in the FOV. An AIRS granule has been set as 6 minutes of data, 30 footprints cross track by 45 lines along track for each of the approximate 2378 channels. There are 240 granules per day, with an orbit repeat cycle of approximately 16 day.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR_2.html
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F9RRS80QCT0E9
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://sounder.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aqua_Sounder_Level2/SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR.2/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://sounder.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/Aqua_Sounder_Level2/SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR.2/
21 Search the Earthdata website. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR+2
33 CLIMCAPS ATBD https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Sounder/CLIMCAPS.V2.ATBD.pdf
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
21 CLIMCAPS Science Application Guide (Digital version) https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/data/guides-docs/climcaps-science/
34 Sample plot of AIRS CLIMCAPS Level 2 Cloud Cleared Radiances. https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/SNDRAQIL2CCPCCR_02.png
33 CLIMCAPS Product User Guide:File Format and Definition https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Sounder/CLIMCAPS.V2.README.pdf
33 CLIMCAPS Science Application Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Sounder/CLIMCAPS_V2_L2_science_guides.pdf

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  • infrared-wavelengths
  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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