HR: 1340h
AN: A33A-0117    [Abstracts]
TI: Aura Atmospheric Data Products and Their Availability From NASA Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC
AU: * Ahmad, S P
EM: ahmad@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Earth Science (GES) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) /SSAI, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Johnson, J E
EM: jjohnson@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Earth Science (GES) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) /SSAI, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Gopalan, A
EM: agopalan@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Earth Science (GES) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) /SSAI, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Smith, P M
EM: Peter.M.Smith@nasa.gov
AF: NASA GES DAAC, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20971 United States
AU: Leptoukh, G G
EM: Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov
AF: NASA GES DAAC, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20971 United States
AU: Kempler, S J
EM: Steven.J.Kempler@nasa.gov
AF: NASA GES DAAC, GSFC, Code 902, Greenbelt, MD 20971 United States
AB: NASA's EOS-Aura spacecraft was launched successfully on July 15, 2004. The four instruments onboard the spacecraft are the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer(TES), and the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS). The Aura instruments are designed to gather earth sciences measurements across the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, thermal and microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Aura will provide over 70 distinct standard atmospheric data products for use in ozone layer and surface UV-B monitoring, air quality forecast, and atmospheric chemistry and climate change studies (http://eos-aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/). These products include earth-atmosphere radiances and solar spectral irradiances; total column, tropospheric, and profiles of ozone and other trace-gases, surface UV-B flux; clouds and aerosol characteristics; and temperature, geopotential height, and water vapor profiles. The MLS, OMI, and HIRDLS data products will be archived at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), while data from TES will be archived at NASA Langley Research Center DAAC. Some of the standard products which have gone through quick preliminary checks are already archived at the GES DAAC(http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and are available to the Aura science team and Aura data validation team members for data validation; and to the application and visualization software developers, for testing their application modules. Once data are corrected for obvious calibration problems and partially validated using in-situ observations, they would be made available to the broader user community. This presentation will provide details of the whole suite of Aura atmospheric data products, and the time line of the availability of the rest of the preliminary products and of the partially validated provisional products. Software and tools available for data access, visualization, and data mining will also be discussed. Details of the data access and data mining tools will be provided in another presentation (see J. Johnson et al. at this AGU meeting).
UR: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801)
DE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry
DE: 0345 Pollution--urban and regional (0305)
DE: 0365 Troposphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0370 Volcanic effects (8409)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting