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TRPSCRT2H2D·v1·dataset

Air temperature near the ground (every 2 hours)

TROPESS Chemical Reanalysis Surface Temperature 2-Hourly 2-dimensional Product V1 (TRPSCRT2H2D) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 4
In plain English

What it measures. Air temperature right at the surface, reported every two hours worldwide for the years 2005-2021.

How it's made. Comes from a chemical reanalysis that fuses several computer models with satellite observations to reconstruct past conditions, gridded at roughly 1.1 degrees.

How & where you'd use it. Provides a consistent record of near-surface temperature, often used as context alongside the matching air-pollution datasets in the same reanalysis.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATURE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2005-01-01 → 2021-12-31
  • Measured byREANALYSIS MODELS (NOT APPLICABLE)
  • Processing levelLevel 4
  • 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

The TROPESS Chemical Reanalysis Surface Temperature 2-Hourly 2-dimensional Product contains surface temperature values, a meteorological field. The data are part of the Tropospheric Chemical Reanalysis v2 (TCR-2) for the period 2005-2021. TCR-2 uses JPL's Multi-mOdel Multi-cOnstituent Chemical (MOMO-Chem) data assimilation framework that simultaneously optimizes both concentrations and emissions of multiple species from multiple satellite sensors. The data files are written in the netCDF version 4 file format, and each file contains a year of data at 2-hourly resolution, and a spatial resolution of 1.125 x 1.125 degrees. The principal investigator for the TCR-2 data is Miyazaki, Kazuyuki.

Get the data

trpscrt2h2d_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="TRPSCRT2H2D",
    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 GES_DISC
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