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Description

The OMPS-NPP LP L2 Temperature Vertical Profile swath daily 3-slit collection contains the temperature profile measured by the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Limb-Profiler (LP) sensor on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The product measures the temperature in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere.

Each granule contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit measured for a full day. Spatial coverage is global (-90 to 90 degrees latitude), and there are about 14.5 orbits per day, the data from the center of the LP three slits are used to make a vertical profile. The profile is measured from the ground up to about 60 km with a vertical resolution of the retrieved profiles of approximately 1.8 km.

The data are written using the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 or HDF5.

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
OMPS
Spatial Extent

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

Geographic Region
GLOBAL ,
MESOSPHERE ,
STRATOSPHERE ,
TROPOSPHERE
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2012-02-07 to Present
Data Partner
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDI
Concept ID
C2849507277-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
4843
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Upper Air Temperature

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

Chen, Z. (2023). OMPS-NPP L2 LP Temperature Vertical Profile swath daily 3-slit V1.0 [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/SW3PLSR8B9JI Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

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