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OCO-3 Level 2 spatially ordered geolocated retrievals screened using the A-band Preprocessor, Retrospective Processing V10r (OCO3_L2_ABand) at GES DISC

Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

Version 10r is the current version of the data set. Older versions will no longer be available and are superseded by Version 10r.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory -3 (OCO-3) was deployed to the International Space Station in May, 2019. It is technically a single instrument, almost identical to OCO-2.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is the first NASA mission designed to collect space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize the processes controlling its buildup in the atmosphere.

OCO-3 incorporates three high-resolution spectrometers that make coincident measurements of reflected sunlight in the near-infrared CO2 near 1.61 and 2.06 micrometers and in molecular oxygen (O2) A-Band at 0.76 micrometers. The three spectrometers have different characteristics and are calibrated independently.

Oxygen-A Band cloud screening algorithm is one of the primary cloud screening tools implemented in the operational OCO processing pipeline. The algorithm was introduced and applied to early GOSAT data with further analysis performed on OCO-2 simulations.

The OCO ABO2 algorithm employs a fast Bayesian retrieval to estimate surface pressure and surface albedo from high resolution spectra of the molecular oxygen (O2) A-band, near 0.765 µm. The radiative transfer forward model (FM) assumes a clear-sky condition, i.e. Rayleigh scattering only, such that differences between the modeled and measured radiances are apparent when the measurement scene contains cloud or aerosol.

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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

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
Maintainer
Identifier C2082387228-GES_DISC
Data First Published 2021-05-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2021-05-31
Category OCO-3, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Citation OCO Science Team/Michael Gunson, AnnmarieEldering. 2021-06-10. OCO3_L2_ABand. Version 10r. OCO-3 Level 2 spatially ordered geolocated retrievals screened using the A-band Preprocessor, Retrospective Processing V10r. 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/PUEJGU6YBZ0P. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/OCO3_L2_ABand_10r.html. Digital Science Data.
Creator OCO Science Team/Michael Gunson, AnnmarieEldering
Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/PUEJGU6YBZ0P
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Program Code 026:001
Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
Series Name OCO3_L2_ABand
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Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2019-08-06T00:00:00Z/2023-02-28T00:00:00Z

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