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 40-year record of satellite near-UV observations by three sensors.
The TOMS Nimbus 7 version 2 Level-2 orbital data product consists of cloud fraction, cloud optical depth, normalized radiance, reflectivity, residue, and UV aerosol index at approximately 50x50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | TOMSN7AER_002.png | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | MEaSUREs Project Homepage | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through a directory map | HTML | Access the data via HTTPS | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | README Document | Open resource | |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | OPeNDAP Service | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Earthdata Search | Open resource |