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    • AIRS/Aqua L3 Monthly Quantization in Physical Units (AIRS-only) 5 degrees x 5 degrees V006 (AIRS3QPM) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 8, 2024

    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. AIRS/Aqua Level 3 monthly quantization product is in physical units (AIRS Only). The quantization products (QP) are distributional summaries derived from the Level-2 standard retrieval products (of swath type) to provide a more comprehensive set of statistical summaries than the traditional means and standard deviation. The QP products combine the Level 2 standard data parameters over grid cells of 5 x 5 deg spatial extent for temporal periods of a month. They preserve the multivariate distributional features of the original data and so provide a compressed data set that more accurately describes the disparate atmospheric states that is in the original Level-2 swath data set. The geophysical parameters are: Air Temperature and Water Vapor profiles (11 levels/layers), Cloud fraction (vertical distribution).

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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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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 8, 2024

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 8, 2024
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1238517283-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2002-09-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-04-01
    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 Science Team/Joao Teixeira. 2013-03-12. AIRS3QPM. Version 006. AIRS/Aqua L3 Monthly Quantization in Physical Units (AIRS-only) 5 degrees x 5 degrees V006. 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/Aqua/AIRS/DATA330. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/AIRS3QPM_006.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator AIRS Science Team/Joao Teixeira
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/AIRS3QPM_006.gif
    Harvest Object Id a8b9c70e-3bd5-4bf0-8f8d-293dbf89d523
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aqua/AIRS/DATA330
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name AIRS3QPM
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6d655bb934cc3e96b544ebe51b9336e2e12a746ef675c3165f7b27f309f68de7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z/2024-04-08T00:00:00Z

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