Related URL

Link: GET DATA > ON-LINE ARCHIVE Description: Access the AIRS/Aqua Level 3 Monthly quantization in physical units (AIRS+AMSU) by FTP. Link: GET DATA > MIRADOR Description: Access the AIRS/Aqua Level 3 Monthly quantization in physical units (AIRS+AMSU) using Mirador. Link: GET DATA > ECHO Description: Refine your granule search with ECHO's next generation Earth Science discovery tool (Reverb) using information from this record. Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: AIRS home page at NASA/JPL. General information on the AIRS instrument, algorithms, and other AIRS-related activities can be found. Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: AIRS data support home page at Goddard Earth Sciences Data Information and Service Center/Distributed Active Archive Center (GES DISC DAAC). Online documentation, software to read, visualize and analyze AIRS data and data access information are available from this web site. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION > USER'S GUIDE Description: README Document for AIRX3QPM

Geographic Coverage

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: AIRS Science Team/Moustafa Chahine Dataset Title: AIRS/Aqua Level 3 Monthly quantization in physical units (AIRS+AMSU) Dataset Release Date: 2007-07-26 Dataset Release Place: Greenbelt, MD, USA Dataset Publisher: Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) Version: 005 Data Presentation Form: Digital Science Data Online Resource: http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/collections/AIRX3QPM__005.shtml

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-09-01

Stop Date: 2013-02-28

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL LAND GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 5 degrees Longitude Resolution: 5 degrees Temporal Resolution: monthly

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE >AIR TEMPERATURE >AIR TEMPERATURE PROFILE    [Definition]

ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR >WATER VAPOR >SPECIFIC HUMIDITY PROFILE    [Definition]

ATMOSPHERE >CLOUDS >CLOUD PROPERTIES >CLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION >CLOUD FRACTION VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION    [Definition]

ISO Topic Category

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

AQUA >Earth Observing System, AQUA    [Information]

Instrument

AIRS >Atmospheric Infrared Sounder    [Information]

AMSU-A >Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A    [Information]

Project

DODS >Distributed Oceanographic Data System    [Information]

EOSDIS >Earth Observing System Data Information System    [Information]

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program    [Information]

AQUA >Earth Observing System (EOS), AQUA    [Information]

OPENDAP >Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol    [Information]

CWIC >CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog    [Information]

Quality

The L3Q products combine the Level 2 standard data parameters over grid cells of 5 x 5 deg spatial extent for temporal periods of five days and one month. The report for each grid cell provides a number of representative values and their associated weights. The sample of lower level data points with the same representative is called a “cluster”, and its representative is the “cluster mean”. Cluster membership is determined by assigning lower level data points to clusters so that that the errors between original values and their representatives are minimized. This constraint prevents the creation of single-data-point clusters. As a general rule, Level 2 retrieved quantities whose quality indicators are “best” (=0) or “good” (=1) are included in the data that generate the L3Q product. Users MUST read information contained within the two documents below to avoid misuse of the L3Q products in their research. V5_L2_Standard Product_QuickStart.pdf (http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/documentation/v5_docs/AIRS_V5_Re... V5_L2_Quality_Control_and_Error_Estimation.pdf (http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/documentation/v5_docs/AIRS_V5_Re...)

Access Constraints

Not publicly available at the moment.

Keywords

RADIANCE

INFRARED

CALIBRATED

GEOLOCATED

TEMPERATURE

WATER VAPOR

EOSDIS

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

GES DISC

Data Center

Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA    [Information] Data Center URL: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Data Center Personnel Name: GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP Phone: 301-614-5224 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: gsfc-help-disc at lists.nasa.gov Contact Address: Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center Code 610.2 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution_Media: FTP Distribution_Size: 31 MB Distribution_Format: HDF-EOS Fees: None

Personnel

ED ESFANDIARI Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: 301-614-5960 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: asghar.e.esfandiari at nasa.gov Contact Address: Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center Code 610.2 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA