TES/Aura L2 Supplemental Profiles V007

Description

TL2SUP_7 is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)/Aura Level 2 Supplemental Profiles Version 7 data product. TES was an instrument aboard NASA's Aura satellite and was launched from California on July 15, 2004. Data collection for TES is complete. The satellite flew at an altitude of 705 km in an orbit that took it near Earth's North and South Poles. After each orbit, the spacecraft advanced 22° westward. After 233 orbits (16 days) it was then back to its starting point. This product contains input data to the TES radiance forward model. These were profiles generated from climatology databases to be used in the forward model calculation but are not retrieved parameters. The process, referred to as retrieval, compared observed spectra to the modeled spectra and iteratively updates the atmospheric parameters. Level 2 data contains retrieved species (or temperature) profiles at the observation targets and the estimated errors. The geolocation, quality, and other data (e.g., surface characteristics for nadir observations) were also provided. L2 modeled spectra were evaluated using radiative transfer modeling algorithms. The process, referred to as retrieval, compared observed spectra to the modeled spectra and iteratively updated the atmospheric parameters. L2 modeled spectra were evaluated using radiative transfer modeling algorithms. The process, referred to as retrieval, compared observed spectra to the modeled spectra and iteratively updated the atmospheric parameters. L2 standard product files included information for one molecular species (or temperature) for an entire global survey or special observation run. A global survey consisted of a maximum of 16 consecutive orbits, over which 3,200 retrievals were performed.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Basic IDL Tools for extraction information from TES L2 HDF Product files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/readme/README_L2_ReadSoftware.txt
45 TES Level 2 Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/read_software/TES_L2_ReadSoftware.tar
21 HDFView Overview and Download https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDFVIEW/HDFView
21 DOI data set landing page for TL2SUP_7 https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/TES/TL2SUP_L2.007
21 TES Publications https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/science/publications/
21 Report of TES Level 2 Special Observation Products Available from the ASDC https://l0dup05.larc.nasa.gov/public/cgi-bin/DUE/tes_L2SpecObs.cgi
33 Earth Observing System (EOS) Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Level 2 (L2) Data User’s Guide (Up to & including Version 7 data) - Version 7.0 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/TESDataUsersGuideV7_0_Sep_27_2018_FV-2.pdf
33 TES Level 2 Versioning - Level 2 Standard and Special Observation Products https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/readme/level_2_std.pdf
21 AURA Instrument Home Page https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/
21 EOS Aura Science Team Meeting AGENDA, August 27 - August 29, 2019 Pasadena, CA, USA https://gs614-avdc1-pz.gsfc.nasa.gov/Overview/
33 Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Article: On the trail of global pollution drift https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1251/NASA_SOP_2006_On_the_trail_of_global_pollution_drift.pdf
33 Overview of TES Data at the ASDC - 2015 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/ASDC_TES_Overview_2015.pdf
33 TES Langley ASDC Project Guide https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/tes_project.pdf
21 TES Search and Subsetting Web Application https://subset.larc.nasa.gov/tes/login.php
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for TL2SUP.007 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/TES/TL2SUP.007/
33 TES Level 2 (L2) Data User's Guide (Up to & including Version 8 data) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/TESDataUsersGuideV8_0_March_27_2020_FV-8_rh.pdf
33 Aura-TES L2 Products: Version 2 Data Quality Description https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/quality_summaries/L2_products_v002.pdf
21 NASA Earthdata Forum - TES Project Specific Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/TES
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAURA%2FTES%2FTL2SUP_L2.007
21 Earthdata Search for TL2SUP_7 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1331182610-LARC
21 Report of TES Level 2 Limb Products Available from the ASDC https://l0dup05.larc.nasa.gov/public/cgi-bin/DUE/tes_L2Limb.cgi
21 TES Data Processing Calendar https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/data/processing-calendar/
36 2013 TES Data User Session Presentation - Direct File Download (.ppt) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/TES_STM_2013_Data_User_Session-2.ppt
21 HDF Support Portal https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support
21 TES project home page https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: TES https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/53
21 OPeNDAP data access for TL2SUP.007 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/TES/TL2SUP.007/contents.html
33 Aura-TES L2 Products: Version 7 Data Quality Description https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/quality_summaries/L2_products_V007.pdf
33 Earth Observing System (EOS) Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Data Validation Report (Version F08_11 data) - Version 7.0 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/readme/TES_Validation_Report_v7_Final.pdf

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • air-quality
  • earth-science

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