TES Level 2
Entry Title: TES/Aura L2 Summary Profiles Special Observation V007
Entry ID: TL2SUMS_7
Clouds Radiation Budget Tropospheric Composition
Description
TL2SUMS_7 is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)/Aura Level 2 Atmospheric Temperatures Limb Version 7 data product. TES was an instrument aboard NASA's Aura satellite and was launched from California on July 15, 2004. Data collection for TES is complete. The satellite flew at an altitude of 705 km in an orbit that took it near Earth's North and South Poles. Each orbit, the spacecraft advanced 22° westward and, after 233 orbits (16 days) it was back to its starting point. This product contains atmospheric vertical profile estimates, along with retrieved surface temperature, cloud effective optical depth, column estimates, quality flags, and a priori constraint vectors.
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- NASA EOS ATB Documents: TES
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION GUIDELINES
- Aura-TES L2 Products: Version 2 Data Quality Description
- Aura-TES L2 Products: Version 7 Data Quality Description
DATA QUALITY
- TES Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- NITROGEN OXIDES
- CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
- ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
- WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- CARBON MONOXIDE
- CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
- SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES
- CLOUD TOP PRESSURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
- EMISSIVITY
- CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
- CLOUD PROPERTIES
- CLOUDS
- NITROGEN DIOXIDE > NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
- OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
- VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
- NITROGEN OXIDES > NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
- AIR QUALITY
- SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- METHANE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- TROPOSPHERIC OZONE
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
- SURFACE PRESSURE
- ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
- Carbon Monoxide (CO)
- Emissivity
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitric Acid (HNO3)
- Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Surface Air Temperature
- Tropospheric Ozone (O3)
- Water Vapor
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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
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Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 2004-09-13 - 2018-01-22