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Description

The OMPS-NPP L3 LP Aerosol Extinction Vertical Profile 5 x 15 deg lat-lon grid multi-wavelength monthly (AER) product contains the retrieved aerosol extinction coefficients measured by the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Limb-Profiler (LP) sensor on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The AER product measures stratospheric aerosol abundance and evolution at 6 wavelengths (510, 600, 675, 745, 869 and 997 nm) to complement the OMPS LP measurements of stratospheric and mesospheric profile ozone.

Each granule contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit averaged over an entire month in 5 x 15 deg lat-lon grids. Spatial coverage is global (-90 to 90 degrees latitude). The profiles are gridded from the ground up to about 41 km with a vertical resolution of the 1.0 km. The files are written using the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 or HDF5.

Version Description

Version 1.0 is the current version of this data product, and supersedes all previous versions. Please see the README document for detailed description and differences for this and previous versions. Version 1 - doi:10.5067/2CB3QR9SMA3F - released 1 Dec 2022 - Data coverage: 2012/02/07 to 2019/02/08. First public release of this data product.

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
OMPS
Spatial Extent

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

Geographic Region
GLOBAL ,
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
C2567921544-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
162
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Aerosol Extinction

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

Matt Deland, G. T. (2023). OMPS-NPP L3 LP Aerosol Extinction Vertical Profile 5 x 15 deg lat-lon grid multi-wavelength monthly V1 [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/BXR8K06YPR6U Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

Documents

READ-ME