Datasets / MLS/Aura L2 Methyl Cyanide (CH3CN) Mixing Ratio V002


MLS/Aura L2 Methyl Cyanide (CH3CN) Mixing Ratio V002

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

ML2CH3CN is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) standard product for methyl cyanide derived from radiances measured by the 190 GHz radiometer. The current version is 2.2, and the usefulness of the data remains to be determined. Data coverage is complete from August 8, 2004 to current. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82° to +82° latitude), with each profile spaced 1.5° or ~165 km along the orbit track (roughly 15 orbits per day). The recommended useful vertical range is still to be determined, and the vertical resolution ranges between ~5 km in the lower stratosphere and ~10 km in the upper stratosphere. Users should consult the MLS science team before using the ML2CH3CN data product (see section 3.3 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 2.2 Quality Document at (http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/v2-2_data_quality_document.pdf). Users are encouraged to register with the MLS science team at https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/forms/reguser.php to obtain updates and information about this data product. The data are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5), which is based on the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format, or HDF5. Each file contains one swath object (with profile data), with a set of data and geolocation fields, swath attributes, and metadata. The data fields include the geophysical parameter values and precision (standard deviation), convergence values, data quality, and a status flag. The geolocation fields include a time stamp in TAI-93 format (seconds since January 1, 1993), geodetic latitude and longitude, and pressure level values, as well as local solar time, solar zenith angle, line of sight angle, and orbit geodetic angle. There is one file per day.