TES/Aura L3 Methane Daily Gridded V005

Description

TL3CH4D_5 is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)/Aura Level 3 Methane Daily Gridded Version 5 data product. It consists of daily atmospheric temperature and volume mixing ratio (VMR) for the atmospheric species, which are provided at 2 degree latitude by 4 degree longitude spatial grids and at a subset of TES standard pressure levels. 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 TES Science Data Processing L3 subsystem interpolated L2 atmospheric profiles collected in a Global Survey onto a global grid uniform in latitude and longitude to provide a 3-D representation of the distribution of atmospheric gasses. The L3 standard data products are composed of L3 HDF-EOS grid data. A separate product file was produced for each different atmospheric species. TES obtained data in two basic observation modes: Limb or Nadir; Nadir observations, which point directly to the surface of the Earth, are different from limb observations, which are pointed at various off-nadir angles into the atmosphere. The product file may contain, in separate folders, limb data, nadir data, or both folders may be present. Specific to L3 processing were the terms Daily and Monthly representing the approximate time coverage of the L3 products. However, the input data granules to the L3 process are complete Global Surveys; in other words a Global Survey was not split in relation to time when input to the L3 processes even if they exceed the usual understood meanings of a day or month. More specifically, Daily L3 products represented a single Global Survey (approximately 26 hours) and Monthly L3 products represent Global Surveys that are initiated within that calendar month. The data granules defined for L3 standard products were daily and monthly.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Basic IDL Tools for extracting information from TES L3 HDF Product files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/readme/README_L3ReadSoftwareV1.txt
21 TES project home page https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/
33 TES Level 3 Algorithms, Requirements & Products https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/TES_L3_alg_req_prod.pdf
33 Aura-TES L3 Products: Quality Description https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/quality_summaries/L3_products.pdf
21 Earthdata Search for TL3CH4D_5 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1451578788-LARC
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAURA%2FTES%2FTL3CH4D_L3.005
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
33 TES Level 3 (L3) Data/Plot User’s Guide Version 1.0 December 17, 2007 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/TES_L3_Data_Users_Guide.pdf
33 TES Level 3 Versioning - Level 3 Global Survey Products https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/readme/level_3.pdf
21 HDFView Overview and Download https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDFVIEW/HDFView
21 Report of TES Level 3 Daily Data Products Available from the ASDC https://l0dup05.larc.nasa.gov/public/cgi-bin/DUE/tes_L3daily.cgi
45 TES Level 3 Read Software Package Version 1 - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/read_software/TES_L3ReadSoftwareV1.tar
33 TES Langley ASDC Project Guide https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tes/guide/tes_project.pdf
21 TES Publications https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/science/publications/
21 OPeNDAP data access for TL3CH4D_5 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/TES/TL3CH4D.005/contents.html
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for TL3CH4D_5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/TES/TL3CH4D.005/
21 NASA Earthdata Forum - TES Project Specific Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/TES
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: TES https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/53
21 DOI data set landing page for TL3CH4D_5 https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/TES/TL3CH4D_L3.005

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • air-quality
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • earth-science

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