Description

g3bssp_52 is the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) on the International Space Station (ISS) (SAGE III/ISS) Level 2 Solar Event Species Profiles (HDF5) V052 data product. It contains all the species products for a single solar event. SAGE III was Launched on February 19, 2017 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center, SAGE III-ISS is the second instrument from the SAGE III project, externally mounted on the ISS. This ISS-based instrument uses a technique known as occultation, which involves looking at the light from the Sun or Moon as it passes through Earth's atmosphere at the edge, or limb, of the planet to provide long-term monitoring of ozone vertical profiles of the stratosphere and mesosphere. The data provided by SAGE III-ISS includes key components of atmospheric composition and their long-term variability, focusing on the study of aerosols, chlorine dioxide, clouds, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen trioxide, pressure and temperature, and water vapor. SAGE data has historically been used by the World Meteorological Organization to inform their periodic assessments of ozone depletion. These new observations from the International Space Station will continue the SAGE team's contributions to ongoing scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere.

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Publications which Cite this Collection

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Thomason, Larry W.; Knepp, Travis (2023). Quantifying SAGE II (1984–2005) and SAGE III/ISS (2017–2022) observations of smoke in the stratosphere.

Wargan, Krzysztof; Weir, Brad; Manney, Gloria L.; Cohn, Stephen E.; Knowland, K. Emma; Wales, Pamela A.; Livesey, Nathaniel J. (2023). M2‐SCREAM: A Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura MLS Data With MERRA‐2 Transport.

Bognar, Kristof; Tegtmeier, Susann; Bourassa, Adam; Roth, Chris; Warnock, Taran; Zawada, Daniel; Degenstein, Doug (2016). Stratospheric ozone trends for 1984–2021 in the SAGE II–OSIRIS–SAGE III/ISS composite dataset.

Natarajan, Murali; Damadeo, Robert; Flittner, David (2015). Solar occultation measurement of mesospheric ozone by SAGE III/ISS: impact of variations along the line of sight caused by photochemistry.

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE

SAGE III/ISS Data Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)

PROJECT HOME PAGE

SAGE project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION GUIDELINES

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for SAGE III-ISS

IMPORTANT NOTICE

• SAGE III/ISS Version 5.2 Release Notes

PRODUCT USAGE

• NASA Open Source Agreement for Computer Software

USER'S GUIDE

• SAGE III/ISS Data Products User’s Guide, April 2021

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