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NOAA Climate Data Record for Mean Layer Temperature (Lower Stratosphere) from UCAR, Version 2

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: August 03, 2026 at 06:43 AM | Dataset Last Updated: January 29, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Temperatures in the Lower Stratosphere (TLS) (AMSU channel 9 and MSU channel 4) CDR is generated by using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Europe METeorological Operational satellite-A (Metop/A) satellites which have been calibrated using coincident Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation (RO) temperature profile measurements from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) and Challenging Mini-satellite Payload (CHAMP), and Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) from 2001 to the current. The 'adjusted' MSU/AMSU data in the period of 2001 to 2014 were used as reference data to calibrate other overlapped MSU/AMSU data from 1980 to 2001.

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  "NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11",
  "NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12",
  "NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14",
  "NOAA-15 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-15",
  "NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16",
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  "Monthly Climatology",
  "250 km - < 500 km or approximately 2.5 degrees - < 5.0 degrees",
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