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TRPSDL2TATMCRSAUS·v1·dataset

Air temperature by altitude over Australian wildfires

TROPESS CrIS-SNPP L2 Atmospheric Temperature for Australian Fires, Standard Product V1 (TRPSDL2TATMCRSAUS) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 2
In plain English

What it measures. Air temperature at different heights in the atmosphere over Australia during the 2019-2020 wildfire season, along with uncertainty and diagnostic details.

How it's made. Retrieved from the CrIS infrared sounder on the Suomi NPP satellite using the TROPESS project's optimal-estimation algorithm, with one file per day at about 14 km resolution.

How & where you'd use it. Provides the temperature backdrop for studying how the severe Australian bushfires interacted with the atmosphere over that period.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2019-11-01 → 2020-01-31
  • Measured bySuomi-NPP (CrIS)
  • Processing levelLevel 2
  • Spatial extent100, -60, 177.5, 0
  • 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 CrIS-SNPP L2 Atmospheric Temperature for Australian Fires, Standard Product contains the vertical distribution of the retrieved atmospheric state of atmospheric temperature (TATM), formal uncertainties, and diagnostic information measured by the CrIS instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. This product focuses on the Australia region (60S-0S; 100E-177.5E) for the time period from 2019-11-01 to 2020-01-31, during the outbreak of Austrailan wildfires. The NASA TRopospheric Ozone and Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) project, uses an optimal estimation algorithm, known as the MUlti-SpEctra, MUlti-SpEcies, Multi-SEnsors (MUSES). The data files are written in the netCDF version 4 file format, and each file contains one day of data. The data have a spatial resolution of 14 km (CrIS nadir FOV), and are reported at 31 vertical levels from the surface to 0.1 hPa. The principal investigator for the TROPESS project is Kevin W. Bowman.

Get the data

trpsdl2tatmcrsaus_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="TRPSDL2TATMCRSAUS",
    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
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.