title: | NH3.dec.2002.V3 |
comment: | This data are produced by Drs. Juying Warner and Zigang Wei using measurements from the AIRS instrument |
keywords: | EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > Atmopheric Chemistry > Ammonia |
source: | Aqua AIRS AMSU |
shortname: | AIRSAC3MNH3 |
longname: | NH3 Volume Mixing Ratio |
format: | netCDF |
versionid: | 3 |
rangebeginningdate: | 20021201 |
rangebeginningtime: | 00:00:00.000000 |
rangeendingdate: | 20021231 |
rangeendingtime: | 23:59:59.999999 |
identifierproductdoiauthority: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/06YIT7GX74FN |
processing_level: | 3 |
product_start_date_time: | 2002-12-01 00:00:00 |
product_end_date_time: | 2002-12-31 23:59:59 |
product_name_type_id: | L3 |
acknowledgment: | Support for this research was provided by NASA HQ through ROSES: NNX12AJ05G, NNX14AJ24G, and NNX16AQ67G. |
instrument: | Aqua AIRS AMSU |
product_name_extension: | nc |
featuretype: | grid |
data_structure: | grid |
summary: | The Level-3 monthly mean ammonia VMRs in daytime and over land, derived using the measurements from the AIRS and AMSU instruments on the NASA Aqua platform. |
contributor_name: | Dr. Juying Warner, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
contributor_role: | Research PI |
creator_name: | NASA/GSFC GESDISC |
history: | AIRS ammonia from Sep. 2002 through Aug. 2016 |
creator_email: | gsfc-help-disc@lists.nasa.gov |
creator_url: | http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
institution: | NASA GSFC GES DISC |
metadata_link: | http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
references: |
Warner, J. X., R. R. Dickerson, Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, Y. Wang, and Q. Liang (2017), Increased atmospheric ammonia
over the world’s major agricultural areas detected from space, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072305
Warner, J. X., Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, R. R. Dickerson, and J. B. Nowak (2016), The global tropospheric ammonia
distribution as seen in the 13-year AIRS measurement record, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 5467-5479,
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5467-2016 |
doi: | 10.5067/06YIT7GX74FN |
lat: | Array of 32 bit Reals [lat = 0..179] units: degrees_north long_name: latitude starting at -89.5, by 1 degree increments standard_name: latitude |
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lon: | Array of 32 bit Reals [lon = 0..359] units: degrees_east long_name: longitude starting at -179.5, by 1 degree increments standard_name: longitude |
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time: | Array of 64 bit Reals [time = 0..0] units: seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z long_name: averaging period in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z bounds: time_bnds |
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press_level: | Array of 32 bit Reals [press_level = 0..11] units: hPa long_name: atmospheric layer equivalent pressure |
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nh3_vmr: | Grid _FillValue: -999.900024 units: mol/mol, number of moles of ammonia per mole of air long_name: volume mixing ratio of ammonia in air max: 1.77729724e-08 min: 1.47419390e-13 standard_name: NH3 volume mixing ratio
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time_bnds: | Array of 64 bit Reals [ntime = 0..1] units: seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z long_name: start and end time of the month, in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z |