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    MLS/Aura Level 3 Daily Binned Water Vapor (H2O) Mixing Ratio on Zonal and Similar Grids V004 (ML3DZH2O) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    ML3DZH2O is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) daily binned on zonal and assorted vertical grids product for water vapor (H2O) derived from radiances measured primarily by the 190 GHz radiometer. The data version is 4.2. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 to +82 degrees latitude) at 4 degree latitude zonal increments. The recommended useful vertical range is between 316 and 0.00215 hPa, and the vertical resolution is about 1.5 km at 316 hPa increasing to 3.5 km to 4.64 hPa, and degrades to 15 km above 0.1 hPa. Users of the ML3DZH2O data product should read chapter 4 and section 3.9 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 4 Quality Document for more information.

    The data files contain one year of data and are archived in the netCDF4 format, which is also compatible with HDF5 readers and tools. Each file contains four group objects: lat vs pressure zonal mean, lat vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, "equivalent latitude" vs "potential temperature" zonal mean, and vortex average vs "potential temperature". Each group has a set of data (average, min, max, std dev, rms) and geolocation fields, grid attributes, and metadata.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1725335247-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2020-03-06
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category Aura, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 19ad1862-1d08-4469-aeed-b7a9f84fdf0c
    Harvest Source Id a73e0c30-4684-40ef-908e-d22e9e9e5f86
    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA/3309
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -82.0 180.0 82.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bec4164f56ab96f87e4dabdc0880f755ba8ff16eb5447aac80d7f327e6125c9b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2004-08-02T00:00:00Z/2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

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