- Atmosphere - NASA Earthdata
Earth's atmosphere is a layer of mixed gases approximately 60 miles high that provides the air we breathe, shields us from dangerous levels of ultraviolet light from the sun, and traps enough heat to maintain a livable environment NASA's satellites make atmospheric measurements that scientists use to study its chemistry and air quality, weather, and climate change
- Atmospheric Rivers | NASA Earthdata
NASA’s Earth-observing satellites help scientists identify atmospheric rivers, which enables studies of climate change, water management, and weather
- Atmospheric Science Data Center | NASA Earthdata
NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center projects focus on Earth science disciplines including radiation budget, clouds, aerosols, and tropospheric composition
- New Jupyter Notebook GitHub Repository Offers Tips and Scripts for . . .
NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) recently debuted its new GitHub online collaboration and code-sharing page offering tutorials, scripts, and guides for using data from a variety of sources such as the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) instrument The files available in the ASDC Data and User Services GitHub repository help users in working with ASDC-managed
- AIRS Near Real-Time Data - NASA Earthdata
Launched in 2002, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite provides 3D measurements of temperature, water vapor, trace gases, and surface and cloud properties through the atmospheric column Near real-time (NRT) AIRS data are available through NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observation (LANCE) generally within 75 to 140
- Humidity | NASA Earthdata
Humidity is a measure of water vapor in the atmosphere There are measures of absolute humidity, which is the grams of water vapor present per cubic meter of air Specific humidity is the grams of water per kilogram of air Then there’s the one people are most familiar with, relative humidity, which is the percentage of water vapor present in the air relative to the maximum it could hold at
- Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 | NASA Earthdata
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) was a replacement mission for the original OCO platform, which failed during launch Launched on July 2, 2014, OCO-2 acquires space-based global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize its sources and sinks (fluxes) on regional scales (≥1000km) Data from OCO-2 help
- Essential Variables - NASA Earthdata
This backgrounder provides information on essential variables known to be critical for observing and monitoring a given facet of the Earth system
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