AIRS Aqua L3 8-Day Atmospheric Support Product

AIRS/Aqua L3 8-day Support Product provides atmospheric sounding data from the AIRS grating spectrometer aboard NASA's EOS Aqua satellite. The dataset contains Level 3 support fields, which are not fully validated and may include inputs, intermediary values, or results from failed retrievals. This product is managed by the GES DISC.

Use Cases

• Analyzing global atmospheric temperature profiles using infrared spectral data.
• Studying humidity distribution and cloud properties from combined visible, infrared, and microwave sensor inputs.
• Investigating intermediary or unvalidated geophysical fields for research and algorithm development.

Strengths

• Data originates from an innovative atmospheric sounding group combining visible, infrared, and microwave sensors.
• Product provides 8-day aggregated Level 3 data for global analysis.

Limitations

• Contains fields that are not fully validated and may include values from failed retrievals.
• No quality control information is available for some fields.
• Specific row counts, column names, and dataset size are unknown across all sources.

Provenance

Source

GES_DISC

Collection Method

Remote sensing data from the AIRS spectrometer on the EOS Aqua satellite.

Freshness

2026-03-13 19:06:29.944088

Geography

Global