TOMSEPL3zref: Daily Zonal Mean Surface Reflectivity

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Atmospheres produced this Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer version 8 dataset. It provides Lambertian effective surface reflectivity values, Rayleigh corrected and averaged into 5-degree latitude bands. The data are stored in ASCII format.

Use Cases

• Analyzing surface reflectivity trends based on daily zonal means.
• Studying atmospheric radiation using Rayleigh-corrected reflectivity values.
• Mapping ozone-related phenomena with data averaged in 5-degree latitude bands.
• Comparing Lambertian effective reflectance across different latitudes.

Strengths

• Data is produced by NASA's Laboratory for Atmospheres, indicating institutional authority.
• The dataset is available on multiple platforms (NASA Earthdata and Data.gov), suggesting recognized importance.
• Values are Rayleigh corrected, indicating a specific processing method.

Limitations

• Column names are unknown, limiting detailed understanding of the data structure.
• Platforms provide conflicting last updated dates (2005-12-13 and 2026-04-09), indicating metadata inconsistency.
• Specific row counts, file sizes, and temporal coverage are not provided.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data gathered by the Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS).

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:31:44.796034

Geography

Global, averaged in 5-degree latitude bands.