GES_DISC_ML2T_V004
MLS/Aura Level 2 Temperature V004 (ML2T) at GES DISC
Schwartz, M., Livesey, N. and Read, W.
MLS/Aura Level 2 Temperature
ML2T
2015-02-19
Greenbelt, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center
004
Digital Science Data
10.5067/AURA/MLS/DATA2021
http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML2T_V004.html
TECHNICAL CONTACT
MLS SCIENCE TEAM
data@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
818-354-6716
Mail Stop 183-701, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena
CA
91109-8099
USA
INVESTIGATOR
NATHANIEL
LIVESEY
livesey@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
Mail Stop 183-701, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena
CA
91109-8099
USA
DIF AUTHOR
JAMES
EDWARD
JOHNSON
James.Johnson@nasa.gov
301-614-5121
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 610.2
Greenbelt
MD
20771
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
ATMOSPHERE
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE
CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
MLS
Microwave Limb Sounder
AURA
Earth Observing System, Aura
2004-08-08
IN WORK
-82.0
82.0
-180.0
180.0
261 HPA
0.001 HPA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
300 km at limb tagent point (along-track)
3 km at limb tagent point (cross-track)
100 km - < 250 km or approximately 1 degree - < 2.5 degrees
1.5 - 6 km
Twice per day; Day and Night; Orbital repeat cycle 16 days
AURA
Earth Observing System (EOS), AURA
Users are encouraged to register with the MLS science team at https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/forms/reguser.php to obtain updates and information about this data product.
English
NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
DATA CENTER CONTACT
GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
gsfc-help-disc@lists.nasa.gov
301-614-5224
301-614-5268
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
Code 610.2
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
MD
20771
USA
Online (HTTP)
1.60 MB per file
HDF-EOS5 (Swath)
* Su, H., J.H. Jiang, X. Liu, J.E. Penner, W.G. Read, S.T. Massie, M.R. Schoeberl, P. Colarco, N.J. Livesey, and M.L. Santee, "Enhanced Water Vapor Transport to the Stratosphere by Pollutants in Asia", J. Climate, in review.
* Wu, L., H. Su, and J.H. Jiang, "Evaluation of the WRF-Chem simulations for biomass burning over South America", J. Geophys. Res., 2010JD015304 , in review.
* Damiani, A., M. Storini, M.L. Santee, and S. Wang, "Variability of the nighttime OH layer and mesospheric ozone at high latitudes during northern winter: influence of meteorology", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10, 10291-10303, 10.5194/acp-10-10291-2010, 2010.
* Dyrland, M.E., C.M. Hall, F.J. Mulligan, and M. Tsutsumi, "Improved estimates for neutral air temperatures at 90 km and 78 deg.N using satellite and meteor radar data", Radio Science, 10.1029/2009RS004344, in press.
* French, W.J.R., and F.J. Mulligan, "Stability of temperatures from TIMED/SABER v1.07 (2004-2009) and Aura/MLS v2.2 (2004-2009) compared with OH(6-2) temperatures observed at Davis Station, Antarctica", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10, 11439-11446, doi:10.5194/acp-10-11439-2010, 2010.
* Jiang, J.H., H. Su, S. Pawson, H.C. Liu, W. Read, J.W. Waters, M. Santee, D.L. Wu, M. Schwartz, N. Livesey, A. Lambert, R. Fuller, and J.N. Lee, "Five-year (2004-2009) Observations of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud Ice from MLS and Comparisons with GEOS-5 analyses", J. Geophys. Res. 115, D15103, doi:10.1029/2009JD013256, 2010.
* Massie, S.T., J.C. Gille, C. Craig, R. Khosravi, J. Barnett, W. Read, and D. Winker, "HIRDLS and CALIPSO observations of tropical cirrus", J. Geophys. Res. 114, D00H11, doi:10.1029/2009JD012100, 2010.
* Minschwaner, K., G.L. Manney, N.J. Livesey, H.C. Pumphrey, H.M. Pickett, L. Froidevaux, A. Lambert, M.J. Schwartz, P.F. Bernath, K.A. Walker, and C.D. Boone, "The photochemistry of carbon monoxide in the stratosphere and mesosphere evaluated from observations by the Microwave Limb Sounder on the Aura satellite", J. Geophys. Res. 115, D13303, doi:10.1029/2009JD012654, 2010.
* Ott, L., B. Duncan, S. Pawson, P. Colarco, M. Chin, C. Randles, T. Diehl, and E. Nielsen, "Influence of the 2006 Indonesian biomass burning aerosols on tropical dynamics studies with the GEOS-5 AGCM", J. Geophys. Res. 115, D14121, 10.1029/2009JD013181, 2010.
* Robert, C.E., C. von Savigny, N. Rahpoe, H. Bovensmann, J.P. Burrows, M.T. DeLand, and M.J. Schwartz, "First evidence of a 27 day solar signature in noctilucent cloud occurrence frequency", J. Geophys. Res. 115, D00I12, doi:10.1029/2009JD012359, 2010.
* Shettle, E.P., G.E. Nedoluha, M.T. DeLand, G.E. Thomas, and J.J. Olivero, "SBUV observations of polar mesospheric clouds compared with MLS temperature and water vapor measurements", Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L18810, 10.1029/2010GL044132, 2010.
* Belova, A., S. Kirkwood, and D. Murtagh, "Planetary waves in ozone and temperature in the Northern Hemisphere winters of 2004/2004 and early 2005", Annales Geophysicae 27, 1189-1206, 2009.
* Chernigovskaya, M.A., "Morphological features of the atmosphere temperature regime in the south region of East Siberia", Proceedings of SPIE 7296, 72960K, doi:10.1117/12.823815, 2009.
* Eckermann, S.D., K.W. Hoppel, L. Coy, J.P. McCormack, D.E. Sisskind, K. Nielsen, A. Kochenash, M.H. Stevens, C.R. Englert, W. Singer, and M. Hervig, "High-altitude data assimilation system experiments for the northern summer mesosphere season of 2007", J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys. 71, 531-551, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.036 , 2009.
* Haefele, A., E. De Wachter, K. Hocke, N. Kampfer, G.E. Nedoluha, R.M. Gomez, P. Eriksson, P. Forkman, A. Lambert, and M.J. Schwartz, "Validation of ground-based microwave radiometers at 22 GHz for stratospheric and mesospheric water vapor", J. Geophys. Res. 114, D23305, doi:10.1029/2009JD011997 , 2009.
* Karlsson, B., C.E. Randall, S. Benze, M. Mills, V.L. Harvey, and S.M. Bailey, "Intra-seasonal variability of polar mesospheric clouds due to inter-hemispheric coupling", Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L20802, doi:10.1029/2009GL040348, 2009.
* Limpasuvan, V., and D. Wu, "Anomalous Two-day Wave Behavior during the 2006 Austral Summer", Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L04807, doi:10.1029/2008GL036387, 2009.
* Manney, G.L., M.J. Schwartz, K. Krueger, M.L. Santee, S. Pawson, J.N. Lee, W.H. Daffer, R.A. Fuller, and N.J. Livesey, "Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Observations of Dynamics and Transport During the Record-breaking 2009 Arctic Stratospheric Major Warming", Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, doi:10.1029/2009GL038586, 2009.
* Meek, C.E., and A.H. Manson, "Summer planetary-scale oscillations: Aura MLS temperature compared with ground-based radar wind", Annales Geophysicae 27, 1763-1774, 2009.
* Morris, R.J., A.R. Klekociuk, R. Latteck, W. Singer, D.A. Holdsworth, and D.J. Murphy, "Inter-hemispheric asymmetry in polar mesosphere summer echoes and temperature at 69 latitude", J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys. 71, 464-469, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.042, 2009.
* Morris, R.J., A.R. Klekociuk, and D.A. Holdsworth, "Low latitude 2-day planetary wave impact on austral polar mesopause temperatures: revealed by a January diminution in PMSE above Davis, Antarctica", Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L11807, doi:10.1029/2009GL037817, 2009.
* Xu, X., A.H. Manson, C.E. Meek, T. Chshyolkova, J.R. Drummond, C.M. Hall, Ch. Jacobi, D. Riggin, R.E. Hibbins, M. Tsutsumi, W.K. Hocking, and W.E. Ward, "Relationship between variability of the semidiurnal tide in the Northern Hemisphere mesosphere and quasi-stationary planetary waves throughout the global middle atmosphere", Annales Geophysicae 27, 11, 4239-4256, 2009.
* Xu, X., A.H. Manson, C.E. Meek, T. Chshyolkova, J.R. Drummond, C.M. Hall, D.M. Riggin, and R.E. Hibbins, "Vertical and interhemispheric links in the stratosphere-mesosphere as revealed by the day-to-day variability of Aura-MLS temperature data", Annales Geophysicae 27, 3387-3409, 2009.
* Alexander, M.J., J.C. Gille, C. Cavanaugh, M.T. Coffey, C. Craig, T. Eden, G. Francis, C. Halvorson, J.W. Hannigan, R. Khosravi, D.E. Kinnison, H. Lee, S.T. Massie, B. Nardi, J.J. Barnett, C. Hepplewhite, A. Lambert, and V. Dean, "Global Estimates of Gravity Wave Momentum Flux from High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) Observations", J. Geophys. Res. 113, D15S18, doi:10.1029/2007JD008807, 2008.
* Gille, J., J.J. Barnett, P. Arter, M. Barker, P.F. Bernath, C.D. Boone, C. Cavanaugh, J. Chow, M.T. Coffey, J. Craft, C. Craig, M. Dials, V. Dean, T. Eden, D.P. Edwards, G. Francis, C. Halvorson, V.L. Harvey, C. Hepplewhite, R. Khosravi, D.E. Kinnison, C. Krinsky, A. Lambert, H. Lee, L.V. Lyjak, J. Loh, W.G. Mankin, S.T. Massie, J.M. McInerney, J. Moorhouse, B. Nardi, D. Packman, C.E. Randall, J. Reburn, W. Rudolf, M.J. Schwartz, J. Serafin, K. Stone, B. Torpy, K.A. Walker, A.M. Waterfall, R. Watkins, J. Whitney, D. Woodard, and G. Young, "High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS): Experiment Overview, recovery and validation of initial temperature data", J. Geophys. Res. 113, D16S43, doi:10.1029/2007JD008824, 2008.
* Hoppel, K.W., N.L. Baker, L. Coy, S.D. Eckermann, J.P. McCormack, G.E. Nedoluha, and E. Siskind, "Assimilation of stratospheric and mesospheric temperatures from MLS and SABER into a global NWP model", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8, 6103-61116, 2008.
* Manney, G.L., K. Kruger, S. Pawson, K. Minschwaner, M.J. Schwartz, W.H. Daffer, N.J. Livesey, M.G. Mlynczak, E.E. Remsberg, J.M. Russell, and J.W. Waters, "The evolution of the stratopause during the 2006 major warming: Satellite Data and Assimilated Meteorological Analyses", J. Geophys. Res. 113, D11115, doi:10.1029/2007JD009097, 2008.
* Manney, G.L., W.H. Daffer, K.B. Strawbridge, K.A. Walker, C.D. Boone, P.F. Bernath, T. Kerzenmacher, M.J. Schwartz, K. Strong, R.J. Sica, K. Kruger, H.C. Pumphrey, L. Froidevaux, A. Lambert, M.L. Santee, N.J. Livesey, E.E. Remsberg, M.G. Mlynczak, and J.M. Russell III, "The High Arctic in Extreme Winters: Vortex, Temperature, and MLS and ACE-FTS Trace Gas Evolution", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8, 505-522, 2008.
* Manson, A.H., C.E. Meek, and T. Chshyolkova, "Regional stratospheric warmings in the Pacific-Western Canada (PWC) sector during winter 2004/2005: implications for temperatures, winds, chemical constituents and the characterization of the Polar vortex", Annales Geophysicae 26, 3597-3622, 2008.
* Nilsson, H., S. Kirkwood, R.J. Morris, R. Latteck, A.R. Klekociuk, D.J. Murphy, M. Zecha, and E. Belova, "Simultaneous observations of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes at two different latitudes in Antarctica", Annales Geophysicae 26, 3783-3792, 2008.
* Read, W.G., M.J. Schwartz, A. Lambert, H. Su, N.J. Livesey, W.H. Daffer, and C.D. Boone, "The roles of convection, extratropical mixing, and in situ freeze-drying in the tropical tropopause layer", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8, 6051-6067, 2008.
* Schwartz, M.J., A. Lambert, G.L. Manney, W.G. Read, N.J. Livesey, L. Froidevaux, C.O. Ao, P.F. Bernath, C.D. Boone, R.E. Cofield, W.H. Daffer, B.J. Drouin, E.J. Fetzer, R.A. Fuller, R.F. Jarnot, J.H. Jiang, Y.B. Jiang, B.W. Knosp, K. Kruger, J-L.F. Li, M.G. Mlynczak, S. Pawson, J.M. Russell, M.L. Santee, W.V. Snyder, P.C. Stek, R.P. Thurstans, A.M. Tompkins, P.A. Wagner, K.A. Walker, J.W. Waters, and D.L. Wu, "Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Temperature and Geopotential Height Measurements", J. Geophys. Res. 113, D15S11, doi:10.1029/2007JD008783, 2008.
* Manney, G.L., W.H. Daffer, J.M. Zawodny, P.F. Bernath, K.W. Hoppel, K.A. Walker, B.W. Knosp, C. Boone, E.E. Remsberg, M.L. Santee, V. Lynn Harvey, S. Pawson, D.R. Jackson, L. Deaver, C.T. McElroy, C.A. McLinden, J.R. Drummond, H.C. Pumphrey, A. Lambert, M.J. Schwartz, L. Froidevaux, S. McLeod, L.L. Takacs, M.J. Suarez, C.R. Trepte, D.T. Cuddy, N.J. Livesey, R.S. Harwood, and J.W. Waters, "Solar Occultation Satellite Data and Derived Meteorological Products: Sampling Issues and Comparisons with Aura MLS", J. Geophys. Res. 112, D24S50, doi:10.1029/2007JD008709, 2007.
* Ruzmaikin, A., M.L. Santee, M.J. Schwartz, L. Froidevaux, and H.M. Pickett, "The 27-day variations in stratospheric ozone and temperature: New MLS Data", Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L02819, doi:10.1029/2006GL028419, 2007.
* von Savigny, C., M. Sinnhuber, H. Bovensmann, J.P. Burrows, M-B. Kallenrode, and M. Schwartz, "On the disappearance of noctilucent clouds during the January 2005 solar proton events", Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L02805, doi:10.1029/2006GL028106, 2007.
* Cofield, R.E., and P.C. Stek, "Design and field-of-view calibration of 114-660 GHz optics of the Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 44, no. 5, 1166-1181, May 2006.
* Jimenez, C.J., H.C. Pumphrey, I.A. MacKenzie, G.L. Manney, M.L. Santee, M.J. Schwartz, R.S. Harwood, and J.W. Waters, "EOS MLS observations of dehydration in the 2004-2005 polar winters", Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L16806, doi:10.1029/2006GL025926, 2006.
* McCormack, J.P., S.D. Eckermann, D.E. Siskind, and T.J. McGee, "CHEM2D-OPP: A new linearized gas-phase ozone photochemistry parameterization for high-altitude NWP and climate models", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 6, 4943-4972, 2006.
* Schwartz, M.J., W.G. Read, and W.V. Snyder, "EOS MLS forward model polarized radiative transfer for Zeeman-split oxygen lines", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 44, no. 5, 1182-1191, May 2006.
* Santee, M.L., G.L. Manney, N.J. Livesey, L. Froidevaux, H.C. Pumphrey, W.G. Read, M.J. Schwartz, and J.W. Waters, "Polar processing and development of the 2004 Antarctic ozone hole: First results from Aura MLS", Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L12817, doi:10.1029/2005GL022582, 28 June 2005.
* Jiang, J.H., D.Y. Wang, L.J. Romans, C.O. Ao, M.J. Schwartz, G.P. Stiller, T. von Clarmann, L.J. Romans, B. Funke, S. Gil-Lopez, N. Glatthor, U. Grabowski, M. Hopfner, S. Kellmann, M. Kiefer, A. Linden, G. Mengistu Tsidu, M. Milz, T. Steck, and H. Fischer, "Comparison of GPOS/SAC-C and MIPAS/ENVISAT Temperature Profiles and Its Possible Implementation for EOS MLS Observations", CHAMP Mission Results for Gravity and Magnetic Field Mapping, and GPS Atmospheric Sounding, 573-578, C. Reigberr, H. Luehr, P. Schwintzer, and J. Wickert (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelbert/New York, 2004.
ML2T is the EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) standard product for temperature derived from radiances measured by the 118 and 240 GHz radiometers. The current version is 4.2. Spatial coverage is near-global (-82 deg. to +82 deg. latitude), with each profile spaced 1.5 deg. or ~165 km along the orbit track (roughly 15 orbits per day). The recommended useful vertical range is from 261 to 0.001 hPa, and the vertical resolution is between 3 and 6 km. Users of the ML2T data product should read section 3.22 of the EOS MLS Level 2 Version 4 Quality Document for more information (http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/v4-2_data_quality_document.pdf).
Users are encouraged to register with the MLS science team at https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/forms/reguser.php to obtain updates and information about this data product.
The data are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5), which is based on the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format, or HDF5. Each file contains two swath objects (one with profile data, the other with column data), each with a set of data and geolocation fields, swath attributes, and metadata. The data fields include the geophysical parameter values and precision (standard deviation), convergence values, data quality, and a status flag. The geolocation fields include a time stamp in TAI-93 format (seconds since January 1, 1993), geodetic latitude and longitude, and pressure level values, as well as local solar time, solar zenith angle, line of sight angle, and orbit geodetic angle. There is one file per day.
GET DATA
ON-LINE ARCHIVE
ftp://acdisc.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2T.004/
Access the data via anonymous FTP.
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MIRADOR
http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/homepageAlt.pl?keyword=ML2T 004
Access ML2T data from Mirador.
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OPENDAP DIRECTORY (DODS)
http://acdisc.gsfc.nasa.gov/opendap/HDF-EOS5/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2T.004/contents.html
Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol.
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THREDDS CATALOG
http://acdisc.gsfc.nasa.gov/opendap/HDF-EOS5/Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2T.004/catalog.xml
Access the data using the THREDDS Catalog.
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REVERB
http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/#utf8=%E2%9C%93&spatial_map=satellite&spatial_type=rectangle&keywords=GES_DISC_ML2T_V004
Reverb, the ECHO client, allows one to search and retrieve data across multiple data archive centers.
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/
The MLS home page at NASA JPL.
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USER'S GUIDE
http://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/s4pa//Aura_MLS_Level2/ML2T.004/doc/Aura-MLS_DataQuality_v4-2x-rev1-0.pdf
product README file
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2015-02-19: Added data quality and description document to related URL and updated vertical range as needed.
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