NASA TOMS Project: Earth Probe Daily and Monthly Atmospheric Data

NASA TOMS Project data from the Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) version 8. The collection includes daily ground station overpass and daily/monthly global gridded data products. Data were produced by the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 614).

Use Cases

• Monitor global total column ozone trends based on daily and monthly gridded data.
• Analyze UV aerosol index patterns for atmospheric pollution studies.
• Study Lambertian effective surface reflectivity (Rayleigh corrected) for climate modeling.
• Compare daily ground station overpass data with global gridded products for validation.

Strengths

• Data is mapped to a consistent global grid of size 180 x 288 with a 1.00 x 1.25 degree lat-long resolution.
• Includes multiple complementary data products (ozone, aerosol index, surface reflectivity) in daily and monthly frequencies.
• Produced by the authoritative NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Atmospheres.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 614).

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing from the Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Global, based on the described global grid.