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Thank you! That list is good to have when dealing with the data.
So the switches at 00Z is a feature then.

Hello, Thank you for your reply. So do you mean missing dates are essentially the dates where calibration was performed? Here is the number of missing days for each year. 2001 125 2002 38 2003 21 2004 34 2005 17 2006 18 2007 10 2008 21 2009 78 2010 5 2011 15 2012 13 2013 13 2014 17 2015 13 2016 17 2...

There are quite a few days missing at https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/MOPITT/MOP02J.009/. The days next to the missing those seem to be complete. I can hardly believe that the instrument went on and off precisely at 00Z. So what are those missing days? Is it a bug or a feature? If they are missing d...

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"""
echo "machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login $USERNAME password $PASSWORD" > .netrc
"""

will overwrite whatever you had in your ~/.netrc.

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