AIRS Aqua Daily Atmospheric Support Product

The AIRS/Aqua L3 Daily Support Product provides atmospheric data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. This dataset contains fields which are not fully validated or are intermediary values, including potential values from failed retrievals. It is produced by NASA's GES DISC.

Use Cases

• Analyzing global atmospheric temperature profiles using infrared sounding data.
• Studying humidity distribution and cloud properties from combined sensor outputs.
• Investigating atmospheric composition trends over time with daily aggregated measurements.
• Validating climate models with satellite-derived geospatial atmospheric parameters.

Strengths

• Data originates from a sophisticated grating spectrometer with a resolution (R) of 1200.
• Combines measurements from a group of visible, infrared, and microwave sensors.
• Provides daily aggregated (L3) data products for consistent temporal 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

Data gathered by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard the EOS Aqua satellite.

Freshness

2026-03-13 19:05:00.568013

Geography

Global