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aamhcpex·v1·dataset

African dust and storm field data (CPEX campaign)

AAMH CPEX
atmosphere NASA GHRC_DAAC Level 4 netCDF-4
In plain English

What it measures. Atmospheric data gathered to study African dust and convective storms over the tropical Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean during a 2017 field campaign.

How it's made. Compiled from instruments on the MetOp-A, MetOp-B, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 satellites in support of NASA's CPEX airborne campaign in 2017.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers understand how tropical storms form, grow, and fade, and how Saharan dust interacts with the atmosphere over the ocean.

What's measured

Atmosphere › Atmospheric Temperature › Atmospheric Temperature IndicesAtmosphere › Precipitation › Atmospheric Precipitation IndicesAtmosphere › Atmospheric Water Vapor › Water Vapor IndicatorsAtmosphere › Atmospheric Pressure › Atmospheric Pressure Measurements

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2017-05-26 → 2017-07-16
  • Measured byMETOP-A (Computer) · NOAA-19 (Computer) · METOP-B (Computer) · NOAA-18 (Computer)
  • Processing levelLevel 4
  • Spatial extent154.716, 0.6408, -19.5629, 44.9689
  • FormatsnetCDF-4
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The AAMH CPEX dataset contains products obtained from the MetOp-A, MetOp-B, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 satellites. These data were collected in support of the NASA Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) field campaign. The CPEX field campaign took place in the North Atlantic-Gulf of America-Caribbean Sea region from 25 May to 25 June 2017. CPEX conducted a total of sixteen DC-8 missions from 27 May to 24 June. The CPEX campaign collected data to help explain convective storm initiation, organization, growth, and dissipation in the North Atlantic-Gulf of America-Caribbean Oceanic region during the early summer of 2017. These data are available from May 26, 2017, through July 15, 2017, and are available in netCDF-4 format.

Get the data

aamhcpex_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="aamhcpex",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GHRC_DAAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.