Description

TL3ATM_5 is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)/Aura Level 2 Atmospheric Temperatures Limb Version 5 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. This product consists of monthly atmospheric temperature and volume mixing ratio (VMR) for the atmospheric species, which were provided at 2 degree latitude X 4 degree longitude spatial grids and at a subset of TES standard pressure levels. The TES Science Data Processing L3 subsystem interpolated L2 atmospheric profiles collected in a Global Survey onto a global grid uniform in latitude and longitude to provide a 3-D representation of the distribution of atmospheric gasses. Daily and monthly averages of L2 profiles and browse images are available. The L3 standard data products are composed of L3 HDF-EOS grid data. A separate product file was produced for each different atmospheric species. TES obtained data in two basic observation modes: Limb or Nadir; Nadir observations, which point directly to the surface of the Earth, are different from limb observations, which are pointed at various off-nadir angles into the atmosphere. The product file may contain, in separate folders, limb data, nadir data, or both folders may be present. Specific to L3 processing were the terms Daily and Monthly representing the approximate time coverage of the L3 products. However, the input data granules to the L3 process are complete Global Surveys; in other words a Global Survey was not split in relation to time when input to the L3 processes even if they exceed the usual understood meanings of a day or month. More specifically, Daily L3 products represented a single Global Survey (approximately 26 hours) and Monthly L3 products represent Global Surveys that are initiated within that calendar month. The data granules defined for L3 standard products were daily and monthly.

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Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE

TES Level 3 Read Software Package Version 1 - Direct File Download (.tar)

PROJECT HOME PAGE

TES project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

• NASA EOS ATB Documents: TES

DATA CITATION GUIDELINES

• How to cite ASDC data

DATA QUALITY

• Aura-TES L3 Products: Quality Description

PUBLICATIONS

• TES Publications

READ-ME

• Basic IDL Tools for extracting information from TES L3 HDF Product files

USER FEEDBACK PAGE

• NASA Earthdata Forum - TES Project Specific Forum

USER'S GUIDE

• TES Level 3 (L3) Data/Plot User’s Guide Version 1.0 December 17, 2007

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