UARS Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) Level 3AT V010 (UARIS3AT) at GES DISC

Description

The Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) Level 3AT data product consists of daily, 65.536 second interval time-ordered vertical profiles of temperature and concentrations of O3, H2O, CH4, CO, N2O, N2O5, NO2, and aerosol absorption coefficients. The insrument measured infrared molecular emmissions in the spectral region from 4.6 to 16.6 microns. ISAMS was flown on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and designed to measure the global temperature and composition profiles in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Limb measurements were made in the altitude range between 15 and 60 km at about 2.5 km resolution. Data were collected between latitude 34S and 80N and 80S and 34N, alternating each satellite yaw cycle of about 36 days. The ISAMS Level 3AT data were processed with the version 10 algorithm, except H2O which is version 9. The ISAMS level 3AT product consists of 10 granules per day. A data granule is one ISAMS species or subtype per day. Data are on the UARS standard pressure levels (in mbars) given by: P(i) = 1000 * 10**(-i/6) for i = 0, 1, 2, ... Each of the 10 ISAMS granules is accompanied by its own additional parameter file, designated as level 3TP. The parameter file, contains the additional ancillary and quality information not found in the 3AT file. The data files are available in a binary record oriented format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/UARIS3AT_010.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/UARS_ISAMS_Level3/UARIS3AT/
21 The UARS Project Homepage. https://uars.gsfc.nasa.gov/
10 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/UARS_ISAMS_Level3/UARIS3AT/doc/README.UARIS3A.doc
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=UARIS3AT
34 UARIS3AT_010.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/UARIS3AT_010.png

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • earth-science

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