AIRS Monthly Atmospheric Support Data With Unvalidated Fields

AIRS/Aqua L3 Monthly Support Product contains atmospheric data from the AIRS grating spectrometer aboard the EOS Aqua satellite. These Level 3 support products include fields that are not fully validated, intermediary values, or inputs, and may contain values from failed retrievals. The dataset is provided by the GES DISC.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly trends in atmospheric temperature profiles.
• Studying global humidity distribution patterns over time.
• Using intermediary retrieval values for atmospheric model calibration.
• Investigating spectral data from a visible, infrared, and microwave sensor group.

Strengths

• Data originates from a high-resolution grating spectrometer (R = 1200) on a dedicated satellite platform.
• Provides monthly aggregated Level 3 data for longitudinal analysis.
• Integrates measurements from a multi-sensor group including visible, infrared, and microwave instruments.

Limitations

• Contains fields that are not fully validated and may include values from failed retrievals.
• Specific row counts, column names, and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• One source lists a license as 'other-license-specified', while others list no license information.

Provenance

Source

GES_DISC

Collection Method

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

Freshness

2026-03-13 19:01:42.497151

Geography

Global