Description

Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Aura L3 Atmospheric Temperatures Daily Gridded (TL3ATD) data consist of daily atmospheric temperature and VMR for the atmospheric species. Data are 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 interpolates the 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 is produced for each different atmospheric species. TES obtains data in two basic observation modes: Limb or Nadir. The product file may contain, in separate folders, limb data, nadir data, or both folders may be present. Specific to L3 processing are 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 will not be 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 represent a single Global Survey (approximately 26 hours) and Monthly L3 products represent Global Surveys that are initiated with in that calendar month. The data granules defined for L3 standard products are daily and monthly. Details of the format of this product can be found in the TES Data Products Specifications (DPS) which is available from the LaRC ASDC site: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/tes/DPS.

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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)

HDFView Overview and Download

PROJECT HOME PAGE

TES project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

• NASA EOS ATB Documents: TES

DATA CITATION POLICY

• How to cite ASDC data

DATA QUALITY

• Aura-TES L3 Products: Quality Description

PRODUCT USAGE

• TES Langley ASDC Project Guide

PUBLICATIONS

• TES Publications

READ-ME

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

USER'S GUIDE

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

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