Datasets/AIRS3STD

d019·dataset

Temperature & moisture through the atmosphere

AIRS L3 Standard Atmospheric Profiles Daily 1°

GES DISC AIRS3STD 1° × 1° daily (ascending + descending) HDFNetCDF atmospherewater-vaportemperature

The flagship hyperspectral IR sounder product — temperature, water vapor, ozone, CO, CH4 vertical profiles globally daily. Drives NWP assimilation.

AIRS L3 Standard Atmospheric Profiles Daily 1°

The flagship hyperspectral IR sounder product — temperature, water vapor, ozone, CO, CH4 vertical profiles globally daily. Drives NWP assimilation.

Access

Python (earthaccess): short_name='AIRS3STD'
Portal: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/AIRS3STD_7.0/summary
Tool: Giovanni

Gotchas

L3 retrievals are model-constrained inversions, not direct measurements
Cloud-cleared retrievals; cloudy pixels have degraded vertical resolution
Use v7.0; v6 deprecated

Sources

https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/AIRS3STD_7.0/summary

The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.

Quick access (cloud-direct)

airs3std_access.py

import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="AIRS3STD",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream from GES DISC

Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.

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