Level 3 Products for mls on eos aura

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.