Daily atmosphere temperature grids (old NOAA-12)
What it measures. Daily maps of atmospheric conditions, especially temperature, derived from older infrared and microwave sounder readings and laid out on a 1-degree grid.
How it's made. Produced from the HIRS/2 and MSU instruments on the NOAA-12 satellite using a retrieval method developed in France, averaged over each day, as part of a NASA effort to build long-term records from older satellites.
How & where you'd use it. Serves as a historical record of atmospheric temperature for studying past weather and climate.
What's measured
Coverage & cadence
- Time span1991-06-29 → 1995-07-05
- Measured byNOAA-12 (HIRS/2, MSU, TOVS)
- Processing levelLevel 3
- Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
- 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
Level 3 parameters from HIRS/2 and MSU radiances using the Improved Initialization Inversion (3I) classification retrieval scheme by the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (Ecole Polytechnique) averaged over 1 day and mapped on to a 1x1 degree grid. This data was run as part of the NASA TOVS Pathfinder project and designated as Path-B. This dataset contains data from the NOAA-12 satellite.
Get the data
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc") # free Earthdata Login
results = earthaccess.search_data(
short_name="TOVSBDND",
version="01",
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 GES_DISCBrowsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package. Official links
- Access the data via HTTPS. GET DATA
- Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. GET DATA
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