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    • MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Geopotential Height (GPH) on Zonal and Similar Grids V004 (ML3DZGPH) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    ML3DZGPH is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) daily binned on zonal and assorted vertical grids product for geopotential height (GPH) derived from radiances measured by the 118 and 240 GHz radiometers. The data version is 4.2. Data coverage is from August 2, 2004 to current. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 to +82 degrees latitude) at 4 degree latitude zonal increments. The recommended useful vertical range is between 261 and 0.001 hPa, and the vertical resolution varies between ~3.6 and 6 km. Users of the ML3DZGPH data product should read chapter 4 and section 3.8 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 4 Quality Document for more information.

    The data files contain one year of data and are archived in the netCDF4 format, which is also compatible with HDF5 readers and tools. Each file contains four group objects: lat vs pressure zonal mean, lat vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, "equivalent latitude" vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, and vortex average vs "potential temperature". Each group has a set of data (average, min, max, std dev, rms) and geolocation fields, grid 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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    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 C1725335040-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2020-03-06
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-03-06
    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 Schwartz, M., Livesey, N., Read, W., and Fuller, R.. 2020-04-20. ML3DZGPH. Version 004. MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Geopotential Height (GPH) on Zonal and Similar Grids V004. 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/DATA/3308. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML3DZGPH_004.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Schwartz, M., Livesey, N., Read, W., and Fuller, R.
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ML3DZGPH_004.png
    Harvest Object Id db5ecf51-6cd9-413f-b875-b389917174b0
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA/3308
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -82.0 180.0 82.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name ML3DZGPH
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3c9babfe68cc7a5956bab05220f7f8007ce13a7b12ffc4925c4a6ba8c0cd5f8e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2004-08-02T00:00:00Z/2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

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