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    • MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Hydroxyl (OH) Mixing Ratio on Zonal and Similar Grids V005 (ML3DZOH) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    ML3DZOH is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) daily binned on zonal and assorted vertical grids product for hydroxyl (OH) derived from radiances measured by the THz radiometer. The data version is 5.1. Data coverage is continuous from August 2, 2005 to December 12, 2009 when the THz radiometer was placed in standby mode. After this date OH data were collected for about 30 days in August/September of 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 to +82 degrees latitude) at 4 degree latitude zonal increments. The recommended useful vertical range is from 31.6 to 0.00316 hPa, and the vertical resolution is about 3. Users of the ML3DZOH data product should read chapter 4 and section 3.19 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 5 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". These are further subdivided into groups with all valid, ascending orbit, descending orbit, daytime (SZA 110) profiles. 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 December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2042567259-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2021-04-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2021-04-29
    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 Wang, S., Livesey, N., Read, W., and Fuller, R.. 2021-04-29. ML3DZOH. Version 005. MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Hydroxyl (OH) Mixing Ratio on Zonal and Similar Grids 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/DATA/3577. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML3DZOH_005.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Wang, S., 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/ML3DZOH_005.png
    Harvest Object Id 3ef57582-0564-4cbd-9a0b-af889e35cbea
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA/3577
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -82.0 180.0 82.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name ML3DZOH
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d9a245ffa16885fef9599c98b2ff6ebd48b10b7b24ecb39aef6a2cc69954018e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2004-08-02T00:00:00Z/2014-10-01T23:59:59.999Z

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