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Description

Atmospheric vertical profile estimates and associated errors (diagonals and covariance matrices), along with retrieved surface temperature, cloud effective optical depth, column estimates, quality flags, averaging kernels and a priori constraint vectors.

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
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2006-01-31 to 2006-05-20
Data Partner
Atmospheric Science Data Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA (NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC)
Concept ID
C3215612766-LARC_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
187
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
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

TES Science Team. (2013). TES/Aura L2 Atmospheric Temperatures Limb Special Observation - Version 6 [Dataset]. NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/TES/TESTLS_L2.006 Date Accessed: 2026-08-18