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    • OMI/Aura Multi-wavelength Aerosol Optical Depth and Single Scattering Albedo 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V003 (OMAERO) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The Level-2 Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Aerosol Product (OMAERO) is now available from NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) for public access. This is the second public release of version 003. The data was re-processed in late 2011 using an improved algorithm (processing version 1.2.3.1). After some quick validation the reprocessed data was released to the public in March 2012. The shortname for this Level-2 Aerosol Product is OMAERO_V003. There are two Level-2 Aura OMI aerosol products OMAERUV and OMAERO. The OMAERUV product uses the near-UV algorithm. The OMAERO product is based on the multi-wavelength algorithm and that uses up to 20 wavelength bands between 331 nm and 500 nm. OMAERO retrieval algorithm is developed by the KNMI OMI Team Scientists. Drs. Deborah Stein-Zweers, Martin Sneep and Pepijn Veefkind are now the key investigators of this product. The OMAERO product contains Aerosol Optical Depths, Single Scattering Albedo, and other ancillary and geolocation information.

    The OMAERO files are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5). Each file contains data from the day lit portion of an orbit (~53 minutes). There are approximately 14 orbits per day. The maximum file size for the OMAERO data product is about 6 Mbytes.

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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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    References

    https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.869987
    https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.872935
    https://doi.org/10.1117/12.627013

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1239966755-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2012-03-22
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2012-03-22
    Category Aura, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    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 Deborah Stein-Zweers, and Pepijn Veefkind. 2012-03-22. OMAERO. Version 003. OMI/Aura Multi-wavelength Aerosol Optical Depth and Single Scattering Albedo 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V003. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 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/Aura/OMI/DATA2001. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/OMAERO_003.html. Digital Science Data. https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
    Creator Deborah Stein-Zweers, and Pepijn Veefkind
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/OMAERO_003.png
    Harvest Object Id c8451aff-aae5-44c1-9406-1055cf2dc5e1
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/OMI/DATA2001
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.869987, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.872935, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.627013
    Release Place NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Series Name OMAERO
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 86ca2663ebb07256f09b7aa1a8700908468583e7f100d1dcf0ce35cd527b7b7b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z/2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

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