TOMS/EP Near UV Aerosol Index and LER 1-Orbit L2 40x40km at GES DISC

Description

As part of the NASA's Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, this projects describes a multi-decadal Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR) of calibrated radiances as well as an Earth System Data Record (ESDR) of aerosol properties over the continents derived from a 32-year record of satellite near-UV observations by three sensors. The TOMS Earth Probe version 2 Level-2 orbital data product consists of cloud fraction, cloud optical depth, normalized radiance, reflectivity, residue, and UV aerosol index at approximately 40x40 km resolution (at nadir). This product also contains ancillary variables for ocean corrected surface albedo and terrain pressure. Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments have been successfully flown in orbit aboard the Nimbus-7(Nov. 1978 - May 1993), Meteor-3 (Aug. 1991 - Dec. 1994), Earth Probe (June 1996 - December 2005), and ADEOS (Sep. 1996 - June 1997) satellites. These Level-2 data are stored in the Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) and are available from the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FMEASURES%2FAER%2FDATA202
34 TOMSEPAER_002.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TOMSEPAER_002.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TOMSEPAER_2.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/AER/TOMSEPAER.2/
33 README Document https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/AER/TOMSEPAER.2/doc/README.MEaSUREs_Aerosols.pdf
21 MEaSUREs Project Homepage https://earthdata.nasa.gov/community/community-data-system-programs/measures-projects
21 Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TOMSEPAER_2
21 OPeNDAP Service https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/AER/TOMSEPAER.2

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  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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