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    • MODIS/Aqua Clouds 1km and 5km 5-Min L2 Wide Swath Subset along CloudSat V002 (MAC06S1) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    This is the wide-swath MODIS/Aqua subset along CloudSat field of view track. The goal of the wide-swath subset is to select and return MODIS data that are within +-100 km across the CloudSat track. I.e. the resultant MODIS subset swath is sought to be about 200 km cross-track. However, the original MYD06_L2 has data of 5- and 1-km pixels. Thus, MAC06S1 cross-track width is 41- and 201-pixels, depending on the parameter.Along-track, all MODIS pixels from the original product are preserved.

    In the standard product, the level-2 MODIS cloud product consists of cloud optical and physical parameters. These parameters are derived using remotely sensed infrared, visible and near infrared solar reflected radiances. MODIS infrared channel radiances are used to derive cloud top temperature, cloud top height, effective emissivity, cloud phase (ice vs. water, opaque vs. non-opaque), and cloud fraction under both daytime and nighttime conditions. MODIS visible radiances are used to derive cloud optical thickness and effective particle radius and cloud shadow effects. Near infrared solar reflected radiance provides additional information in the retrieval of cloud particle phase (ice vs. water, clouds vs. snow).

    (The shortname for this product is MAC06S1).

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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 C1236350952-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2006-06-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2018-02-28
    Category ATDD, 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 MODIS Science Team; Dr. Bo-Cai Gao, Dr. Paul Menzel, Dr. Michael King. GES DISC. 2006-10-01. MAC06S1. Version 002. MODIS/Aqua Clouds 1km and 5km 5-Min L2 Wide Swath Subset along CloudSat. Greenbelt, MD, USA. MAC06S1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/MAC06S1_002.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator MODIS Science Team; Dr. Bo-Cai Gao, Dr. Paul Menzel, Dr. Michael King
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Editor GES DISC
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/MAC06S1_002.png
    Harvest Object Id 1852685c-7064-4d05-b170-87bd88062095
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Issue Identification MAC06S1
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1236350952-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name MAC06S1
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6671bb9f0699ccbbf19044a0eade0ced790329ba4016cacdd26d0d1f7dc3f909
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2006-06-02T00:00:00Z/2018-02-28T23:59:59.999Z

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