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    • MLS/Aura Level 2 Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Mixing Ratio V005 (ML2SO2) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    ML2SO2 is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) standard product for sulfur dioxide derived from radiances measured by the 240 GHz radiometer. The data version is 5.0. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 degrees to +82 degrees latitude), with each profile spaced 1.5 degrees or ~165 km along the orbit track (roughly 15 orbits per day). The recommended useful vertical range is from 215 to 10 hPa, and the vertical resolution is about 3 km. Users of the ML2SO2 data product should read section 3.21 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 5 Quality Document for more information.

    The data are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5), which is based on the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format, or HDF-5. Each file contains two swath objects (profile and column data), each with a set of data and geolocation fields, swath attributes, and metadata.

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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 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1729926699-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2020-02-04
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-02-04
    Category Aura, 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 Read, W. and Livesey, N.. 2020-06-11. ML2SO2. Version 005. MLS/Aura Level 2 Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Mixing Ratio 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/Aura/MLS/DATA2519. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML2SO2_005.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Read, W. and Livesey, N.
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ML2SO2_005.png
    Harvest Object Id 29b7e5bc-fb5d-470d-8a2e-9a3b281ec8b9
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2519
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -82.0 180.0 82.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name ML2SO2
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ef5bc270bbb68d0bec4ffd8bdc3de94292e00d04884a94ef839b71ae953e400d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2004-08-02T00:00:00Z/2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

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