The NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) is the home (archive) of Precipitation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, and information, as well as data and information from other related disciplines.

The NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) is the home (archive) of Precipitation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, and information, as well as data and information from other related disciplines.

Dataset Card for Publications Citing NASA GES-DISC Datasets with Applied Research Areas

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This dataset includes a curated collection of scientific publications that cite datasets from NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC). The dataset is designed to provide insights into the impact and reach of NASA's data products, particularly in supporting Earth science research. Each publication is… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nasa-gesdisc/es-publications-researchareas.

NASA Knowledge Graph Dataset

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The NASA Knowledge Graph Dataset is an expansive graph-based dataset designed to integrate and interconnect information about satellite datasets, scientific publications, instruments, platforms, projects, data centers, and science keywords. This knowledge graph is particularly focused on datasets managed by NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), which are NASA's data repositories responsible for archiving and… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nasa-gesdisc/nasa-eo-knowledge-graph.

:A “Digital Divide” in data representation exists between the preferred way of data access by the hydrology community (i.e., as time series of discrete spatial objects) and the common way of data archival by NASA earth science data centers (i.e., as continuous spatial fields, one file per time step). This Divide has been an obstacle between hydrology data users (e.g., CUAHSI HIS, HydroShare) and the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). The GES DISC (one of 12 NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) data centers) processes, archives, documents, and distributes data from Earth science missions and related projects, including hydrologic land surface data. The latter are part of the GES DISC Water & Energy Cycle data holdings. Of the many related data services available to users, the NASA Giovanni (Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure) is the best known and most used (cited in more than 2000 peer-reviewed research publications). Giovanni provides a relatively simple way for researchers to conduct exploratory investigations with a variety of NASA Earth observation data and related data sets. Among Giovanni’s suite of plotting options, the time series is probably of the most interest to hydrology data users (and is the second most popular among users in general). However, for optimal access to GES DISC data along the time dimension, the data as archived must be reorganize to some way that is optimal for that mode of access. Given the importance of bridging the Digital Divide, the GES DISC has (1) developed “Data Rods,” a set of REST endpoints for long time series; (2) improved the performance of Giovanni’s time series plotting option; and (3) assisted the University of Texas-Austin in developing and supporting the Data Rods Explorer (DRE), a HydroShare app that combines data from the first two sources. As part of NASA data centers’ overall transitioning to the cloud, the GES DISC has been investigating “Giovanni in the cloud.” Though still under development, the prototype Giovanni Cloud-Optimized Data Store (CODS) has already demonstrated a significant performance increase in time series capabilities—5-10 times faster than the current Data Rods endpoints. The GES DISC aims to continually explore and implement appropriate technologies to improve its data services, in response to user needs of the hydrology community.

GEOS3STST is the satellite-to-satellite tracking data product which contains observations, obtained from the S-band transponders on GEOS 3 relayed by the ATS 6 spacecraft to various ground stations, used for geodetic studies. Data are available for the time period from 1975-04-13 to 1976-04-28 in sixteen files, written in ASCII text, where each measurement is recorded as two lines of text.

The principal investigator for the Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking experiment was Indalecio Y. Galicinao from NASA/GSFC.

The Nimbus-4 Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer (IRIS) Level 1 Radiance Data contain thermal emissions of the Earth's atmosphere at wave numbers between 400 and 1600 cm-1, with a nominal resolution of 2.8 cm-1. The data also contain documentation information, reference calibration, average instrument temperatures, and a summary for each orbital pass. The data, originally written on IBM 360 machines, were recovered from 9-track magnetic tapes. The data are archived in their original IBM 32-bit word binary record format, and each file contains an entire day of measurements. The product contains data from April 9, 1970 (day of year 99) through Jan 31, 1971 (day of year 31). The IRIS instrument was designed to provide information on the vertical structure of the atmosphere and on the emissive properties of the earth's surface by measuring the surface and atmospheric radiation in the 6.25 to 25 micrometer range using a modified Michelson interferometer. IRIS viewed along the satellite track direction with a spatial resolution of 94 km at nadir. A Fourier transform was applied to the interferograms to produce thermal emmision spectra of the Earth which could be used to derive vertical profiles of temperature, water vapor, and ozone, as well as other parameters of meteorological interest. The Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer (IRIS) experiment on Nimbus-4 is a follow on experiment to the Nimbus-3 IRIS experiment. The IRIS Principal Investigator was Dr. Rudolf A. Hanel. These data were previously archived at NASA NSSDC under the entry ID ESAD-00093 (originally 70-025A-03A).

The Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC) at NASA is responsible for safeguarding and distributing invaluable Earth science data. Recognizing the critical role of satellite data visualization in immersive environments, we have embarked on a venture that explores the utilization of existing tools and technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR).

The intention of this project is not merely to experiment, but to potentially redefine how we interact with our large data inventory. Our objective is to deepen our comprehension of data and create engaging, interactive experiences.

This Web Coverage Service (WCS) is one of the multiple NASA GES DISC data service components used to provide gridded Level 3 data products. Accessing to this component will result in showing of all services provided in this components. Clients can then access to each service URL to obtain more information of a service. Typically, a getCapabilities request can be sent to a service and a brief description of data products provided by the service will be returned. A client can request more detailed information about the served data products, or coverages, by sending a describeCoverage request to a server. Finally, a client can request actual data using a getCoverage request.

This Web Coverage Service (WCS) is one of the multiple GES DISC data service instances used to provide selected OMI and AIRS data products needed by the international collaborative Atmospheric Composition Portal Project. Accessing to this URL will result in a brief description of coverages (i.e., data layers or variables), or a getCapabilities response. A client can request more detailed information about the served coverages by sending a describeCoverage request to the server. Finally, a client can request actual data using a getCoverage request.

Level 3 parameters from HIRS/2 and MSU radiances using the Improved Initialization Inversion (3I) classification retrieval scheme by the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (Ecole Polytechnique) averaged over 1 day and mapped on to a 1x1 degree grid. This data was run as part of the NASA TOVS Pathfinder project and designated as Path-B. This dataset contains data from the NOAA-12 satellite.

This sample data collection contains L1B radiance values that are compressed and denoised via Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Additionally it contains a new Rapid Event Detection (RED) product, which for multiple spectral regions identify where rare signals are observed, providing an efficient and useful way to locate and study interesting phenomena. Some of the potential uses for these RED components are the detection of atmospheric gases where fires and volcanoes occur. PCA/RED might be a desirable alternative to the existing L1B product because (1) it is many times smaller in data volume, (2) about 80% of the random noise is removed, and (3) it comes with the new RED component. The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Level 1B Full Spectral Resolution (FSR) data files contain radiance measurements along with ancillary spacecraft, instrument, and geolocation data of the CrIS instrument on the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) platform. This platform is also know as NOAA-20 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

This Web Coverage Service (WCS) is one of the multiple GES DISC data service instances used to provide gridded Level 3 daily and multiple day data products from the Auqa AIRS instrument. Client should access this service URL with an OGC getCapabilities request to get a brief description of coverages (i.e., data layers or variables), or a getCapabilities response. A client can request more detailed information about the served coverages by sending a describeCoverage request to the server. Finally, a client can request actual data using a getCoverage request.

Giovanni is a Web-based application developed by the GES DISC that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data. Giovanni is an acronym for the GES-DISC (Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure.

SAMSN7L1RAD_CDROM is the gridded Nimbus-7 Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (SAMS) Level 1 Radiance Data Product. The radiances were selected to derive gas concentrations at the wavelength bands 15 (CO2), 25-100 (H2O) 4-5 (CO and NO), and 7.7 (N2O and CH4) microns in the stratosphere and mesosphere, with a resolution of 100 km in the horizontal by 10 km in the vertical at the limb. This product contains radiances in a daily 2.5 degree latitude x 10 degree longitude grid format, gridded temperature profiles at 100, 30, 10, 3, 1, 0.3, 0.1, 0.03, 0.01 and 0.003 hPa, as well as the calibration, apriori and reformatted copies of the original tapes. The data for this product are available from 22 October 1978 through June 9 1983, with a few additional raw radiances to 16 April 1984. The principal investigators for the SAMS experiment were Prof. John T. Houghton and Dr. Fredric W. Taylor from Oxford University. This product was created by the Oxford University's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) group. The data are stored on a set of 53 CD-ROMs in ASCII files of hexadecimal characters, and are available in gzipped Unix tar archive files. The first CD-ROM contains the a-priori temperature profile, monthly mean retrieved temperature profile, pre-launch calibration, housekeeping and instrument subsystem status files. CD-ROMs 2-5 contain the gridded temperature data. CD-ROMs 6-22 contain the radiances from the C-series and G-series tapes, and CD-ROMs 34-53 contain the raw radiance values from the R-series tape. The byte-ordering in the data files follows the DEC convention for 16-bit integers of less significant byte first. Normal 2's complement integer storage is assumed.

OGC Web Map Server hosted by NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center

LIMSN7L1PROFILER is the Nimbus-7 Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) Level-1 Profiles of Radiance Data product and contains selected daily vertical profiles across the earth’s atmospheric limb derived from the LIMS Level-1 Radiance Archival Tape (RAT) data product. Measurements are obtained, as a function of tangent height (or scan angle), once every 12 seconds in each of the six spectral bands (two 15-micrometer CO2 bands (narrow and wide), an 11.3-micrometer HNO3 band, a 9.6-micrometer O3 band, a 6.9-micrometer H2O band, and a 6.2-micrometer NO2 band) from the highest pressure level to the lowest in steps of 0.1 km Each file contains one days worth of data (~14 orbits per day). LIMS is a limb profiler and spatial coverage is near global between latitude -64 and +84 degrees. Vertical coverage is from about 10 to 50 km (O3 channel to 65 km), with vertical resolution of about 1.5 km. The data are available from 25 October 1978 through 30 May 1979. The principal investigators for the LIMS experiment were Dr. James M. Russell, III from NASA Langley and Dr. John Gille from NCAR. This product was previously available from the NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) under the name LIMS Radiance Archival Data with the identifier ESAC-00032 (old id 78-098A-01B).

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) was launched aboard the EOS-Aura satellite on July 15, 2004 (1:38 pm equator crossing time, ascending mode). OMI with its 2600 km viewing swath width provides almost daily global coverage. OMI is a contribution of the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) in collaboration with Finish Meterological Institute (FMI), to the US EOS-Aura Mission. The principal investigator (Dr. Pieternel Levelt) institute is the KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). OMI is designed to monitor stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, clouds, aerosols and smoke from biomass burning, SO2 from volcanic eruptions, and key tropospheric pollutants (HCHO,NO2) and ozone depleting gases (OClO and BrO). OMI sensor counts, calibrated and geolocated radiances, and all derived geophysical atmospheric products will be archived at the NASA Goddard DAAC. The Sulfer Dioxide Product 'OMSO2' from the Aura-OMI is now publicly available from NASA GSFC Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) for public access. OMSO2 product contains three values of SO2 Vertical column corresponding to three a-priori vertical profiles used in the retrieval algorithm. It also contains quality flags, geolocation and other ancillary information. The shortname for this Level-2 OMI total column SO2 product is OMSO2 and the algorithm leads for this product are NASA/UMBC OMI scientists Drs. Nikolay Krotkov (nickolay.a.krotkov@nasa.gov),Kai Yang(kai.yang@nasa.gov) and Arlin J. Krueger(krueger@umbc.edu). OMSO2 files are stored in EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5). Each file contains data from the day lit portion of an orbit (~53 minutes). There are approximately 14 orbits per day. The maximum file size for the OMSO2 data product is about 21 Mbytes. On-line spatial and parameter subset options are available during data download A list of tools for browsing and extracting data from these files can be found at: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/tools.shtml A short OMSO2 Readme Document that includes brief algorithm description and documents that provides known data quality related issues are available from the UMBC OMI site ( http://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs.php ) For more information on Ozone Monitoring Instrument and atmospheric data products, please visit the OMI-Aura sites: http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://www.knmi.nl/omi/research/documents/. For the full set of Aura products and other atmospheric composition data available from the GES DISC, please see the links below. http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/ http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/

Level 3 parameters from HIRS/2 and MSU radiances using the Improved Initialization Inversion (3I) classification retrieval scheme by the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (Ecole Polytechnique) averaged over 5 days and mapped on to a 1x1 degree grid. This data was run as part of the NASA TOVS Pathfinder project and designated as Path-B. This dataset contains data from the NOAA-10 satellite.

M2SMNXPCT (or statM_2d_pct_Nx) is a 2-dimensional monthly data collection for percentile statistics derived from monthly Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2) datasets. V1, the original version of this percentile data collection, is computed based on the 1981-2010 climatology, covering the period from January 1980 to December 2022. In contrast, V2, the second version, is calculated based on a 30-year climatology (1991-2020), covering the period from January 1980 to the present. This collection consists of percentiles used to identify or characterize extreme weather events associated with temperature (maximum, mean, and minimum 2-m air temperature), as well as with precipitation (total precipitation).MERRA-2 is the latest version of global atmospheric reanalysis for the satellite era produced by the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) using the Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS) version 5.12.4. The dataset covers the period of 1980-present, with a latency of ~3 weeks after the end of the previous month.Data Reprocessing: Please check “Records of MERRA-2 Data Reprocessing and Service Changes”, linked from the “Documentation” tab on this page. Note that a reprocessed data filename is different from the original filename.MERRA-2 Mailing List: Sign up to receive information on reprocessing of data, changes to tools and services, as well as data announcements from GMAO. Contact the GES DISC Help Desk (gsfc-dl-help-disc@mail.nasa.gov) to be added to the list.Questions: If you have a question, please read the "MERRA-2 File Specification Document'', “MERRA-2 Data Access – Quick Start Guide”, and FAQs linked from the ”Documentation” tab on this page for more information. If these documents do not answer your question, you may post your question to the NASA Earthdata Forum (forum.earthdata.nasa.gov) or email the GES DISC Help Desk (gsfc-dl-help-disc@mail.nasa.gov).