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NASA PREFIRE Products Now Publicly Available

Data Release
Issued
Aug. 5, 2025
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PREFIRE top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) derived from data collected by TIRS-PREFIRE aboard PREFIRE-SAT2 on 06-01-2025 between 00:52Z and 02:27Z over both the north and south polar regions.

All NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) datasets are now publicly available through NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC). This public release includes Level 1 Radiance, retrieved Level 2 products, Level 3 climatologies, and supporting auxiliary products. The Level 2 science data collections include a Cloud Mask, Spectral Flux, Surface Emissivity, and Atmospheric Properties (which provides surface temperatures, vertical temperature and water vapor profiles, and column water vapor), and the Level 3 products are 1°x1° gridded, monthly climatologies of Level 2 Surface Emissivity.

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Last Updated

Aug. 8, 2025

Published

Aug. 6, 2025