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Description

TL3HNOM_4 is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)/Aura Level 2 Atmospheric Temperatures Limb Version 4 data product. It consists of monthly averages of atmospheric temperature and VMR for atmospheric species are provided at 2 deg. lat. X 4 deg. long. spatial grids and at a subset of TES standard pressure levels. Algorithms for deriving TES L3 data will be provided in the data files.

Version Description

New O3 climatology data. Updated Methane climatology data. Updated max Optical Path Difference values. New Chi2 quality flag reported. New desert emissivity flag. Updated GMAO a priori values.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aura
Instruments
TES
Projects
TES
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL ,
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2004-08-22 to 2005-03-31
Data Partner
Atmospheric Science Data Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA (NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC)
Concept ID
C3215614220-LARC_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
8
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Nitrogen Compounds ,
Nitrogen Oxides ,
Nitrogen Oxides ,
Atmospheric Nitric Acid

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

TES Science Team. (2015). TES/Aura L3 HNO3 Monthly Gridded - Version 4 [Dataset]. NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/TES/TL3HNOM_L3.004 Date Accessed: 2026-08-08

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