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HSB channel 1 was never implemented and so always -9999.0. There are four channels (channel 2-5) in HSB and their characteristics are summarized below.

Answer: Version 2.7 Algorithm produced Collection 1 Version 3 Algorithm produced Collection 2 Version 4 Algorithm produced Collection 3 Version 5 Algorithm produces Collection 5 Starting with the delivery of Algorithm Version 4 in 2005, AIRS Instrument Team began to produce two types of retrievals ...

Answer: These are the groups of channels recommended by the AIRS Science Team for channel subsetting of AIRS L1B and L2 products. See table below. The grouping is generally based on hardware module in the AIRS instrument. The channel number range and the frequency range in addition to module name f...

Answer: One flavor of the AIRS Level-2 Standard and Support Products does. Their product names are AIRH2RET and AIRH2SUP respectively. The end date for these products is 2003-Feb-05 due to HSB instrument failure. The Standard Product (AIRX2RET) and Support Product (AIRX2SUP) are created using only ...

Answer: In general, AIRS can have negative radiances for shortwave channels. When the scene temperature is low, below 200K, shortwave AIRS channels can have negative radiances. This happens over very high cloud in tropics and over Antartica. In bad channels, radiance can be negative for several dif...

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GES DISC data are stored in the AWS region US West (Oregon), or us-west-2.

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Yes, the user maintains responsibility for their own cloud computing resources. Cost is variable depending on which cloud compute types you choose.

See guidance on Understanding and Managaing Costs in the AWS Cloud.

Answer: Yes, but first you will need to enable the region of interest in your AWS account . For example, to acquire GES DISC data using direct S3 access , you will need to enable the us-west-2 region in your account and then use an AWS service in that region (e.g. EC2 instance , AWS Command Line In...

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As part of NASA's commitment to open science, data access will continue to be free to users.

Answer: Forcing data are atmospheric inputs to the land surface models, including precipitation (rain and snow), radiation, surface wind, temperature, pressure, and humidity (see Tables 3.1 ~ 3.4 in the GLDAS-2 README ). GLDAS-2.0 forcing data – the global meteorological forcing dataset from Prince...