TROPESS TCR-2: Zonal Wind Component Reanalysis

TROPESS Chemical Reanalysis Zonal Wind 6-Hourly 3-dimensional Product provides vertical zonal wind component values from the Tropospheric Chemical Reanalysis v2 (TCR-2). The dataset uses JPL's MOMO-Chem assimilation framework to optimize concentrations and emissions from multiple satellite sensors. It offers 6-hourly data from 2005 to 2021 at a spatial resolution of 1.125 degrees and 27 pressure levels.

Use Cases

• Analyzing tropospheric wind patterns based on the 6-hourly zonal wind component data.
• Studying chemical species transport in the atmosphere based on the integrated meteorological and chemical reanalysis framework.
• Validating atmospheric models using the assimilated, multi-sensor dataset spanning 2005-2021.
• Investigating vertical wind structure across 27 pressure levels from 1000 to 60 hPa.

Strengths

• Assimilates data from multiple satellite sensors using JPL's MOMO-Chem framework.
• Provides a 17-year time series (2005-2021) at 6-hourly temporal resolution.
• Offers data at 27 vertical pressure levels and a 1.125-degree horizontal spatial resolution.

Limitations

• Column names and exact row counts are not provided by any source.
• License information is inconsistently reported as 'other-license-specified' or 'None'.
• The dataset's freshness is unclear; a last updated date is provided for some platforms but is future-dated (2026-04-09).

Provenance

Source

GES_DISC, with principal investigator Kazuyuki Miyazaki.

Collection Method

Generated using JPL's Multi-mOdel Multi-cOnstituent Chemical (MOMO-Chem) data assimilation framework.

Time Range

2005-2021

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:23:35.273285

Geography

Global, at a spatial resolution of 1.125 x 1.125 degrees.