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    • AIRS/Aqua L1B AMSU (A1/A2) geolocated and calibrated brightness temperatures V005 (AIRABRAD) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a grating spectrometer (R = 1200) aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. In combination with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), AIRS constitutes an innovative atmospheric sounding group of visible, infrared, and microwave sensors. The AMSU-A instrument is co-aligned with AIRS so that successive blocks of 3 x 3 AIRS footprints are contained within one AMSU-A footprint. AMSU-A is primarily a temperature sounder that provides atmospheric information in the presence of clouds, which can be used to correct the AIRS infrared measurements for the effects of clouds. This is possible because non-precipitating clouds are for the most part transparent to microwave radiation, in contrast to visible and infrared radiation which are strongly scattered and absorbed by clouds. AMSU-A1 has 13 channels from 50 - 90 GHz and AMSU-A2 has 2 channels from 23 - 32 GHz. The AIRABRAD_005 products are stored in files (often referred to as "granules") that contain 6 minutes of data, 30 footprints across track by 45 lines along track.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Sample image of AIRABRAD

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1243477366-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2002-05-21
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-07
    Category Aqua, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation AIRS project. 2007-07-26. AIRABRAD. Version 005. AIRS/Aqua L1B AMSU (A1/A2) geolocated and calibrated brightness temperatures V005. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/LFUQ1L3IYVQD. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/AIRABRAD_005.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator AIRS project
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview Description Sample image of AIRABRAD
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/AIRABRAD_005.jpeg
    Harvest Object Id 2e75f665-28a1-4e99-bb31-afc7594715ff
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/LFUQ1L3IYVQD
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name AIRABRAD
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a0b50ce41309d35631346419e71e8b4ea3ffdade081f53ce2cc3d217b2b6560f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-05-21T00:00:00Z/2023-08-14T00:00:00Z

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