Level 3 Products for MLS on EOS Aura
Authors
Christina Vuu, Yibo Jiang, Paul Wagner
The Earth Observing System (EOS) Microwave Limb Souder (MLS) is an
atmospheric remote sensing experiment led by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. The
objectives of the EOS MLS are to learn more about the stratospheric
chemistry and causes of ozone changes, processes affecting climate
variablility, and pollution in the upper troposphere. The EOS MLS
is one of four instruments on the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) EOS Aura spacecraft mission launched on July
15, 2004. MLS has been producing, archiving and distributing Level
2 products to users and investigators since February 2005. They
have been publically available since August 2005. The MLS Level 3
software is currently under development and will be released before
August 2006.
MLS will present information about its Level 3. This will describe
the Daily and Monthly products and metadata files to be produced,
their data formats and structures, namely the Swath, Grid and Zonal
Mean types contained in HDF-EOS, the emerging Aura-wide Guidelines
for Level 3 products, and finally how use is made of the software
SDP Toolkit version 5.2.13 and HDF-EOS 5 library version 5.1.9.
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