Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content
  • Feedback

    • MSU Ch 2/3 Daily Lower Troposphere Temps with Limb93 Correction L3 1 day 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree V001 (MSULTT) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) Lower Troposphere Deep Layer Temperature product (MSULTT) provides gridded lower tropospheric temperatures derived from MSU instruments on several different platforms. The temperatures are derived using a combination of MSU channels 2 and 3 which has an averaging kernel that peaks near 500 hecto Pascals. The algorithm is based on Spencer and Christy (1990) with the LIMB 93 limb correction based on latitude, longitude, month, and scan angle. The MSU instruments measure the thermal emission of radiation by molecular oxygen at four frequencies near 60 GHz. North (south) of 66.7N (S) the footprint data are assigned to grid boxes in a weighted method depending on footprint latitude. Horizontal averaging is used

    Access & Use Information

    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.

    Downloads & Resources

    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

    Graphic Preview

    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 C1261530310-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 1979-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 1994-12-31
    Category TOVS Pathfinder, 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 Spencer R., Christy J.R.. 1996-01-01. MSULTT. Version 001. MSU Ch 2/3 Daily Lower Troposphere Temps with Limb93 CorrectionL2 1 day 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree V001. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/MSULTT_001.html.
    Creator Spencer R., Christy J.R.
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/MSULTT_001.png
    Harvest Object Id 349077cf-477e-4140-8873-03ee2be2f6c9
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1261530310-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -89.0 180.0 89.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name MSULTT
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d36c65cb2f2ae85b3c2bc2d3d03ed21db07deacb637e2dfca5033fc25fbd70be
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z/1994-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

    Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.