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NOTICE: This version of the NSF Unidata web site (archive.unidata.ucar.edu) is no longer being updated.
Current content can be found at unidata.ucar.edu.
To learn about what's going on, see About the Archive Site.
AIRS is an atmospheric sounding system of infrared, microwave and visible sensors that provides temperature and moisture profiles, as well as some trace gas burdens/profiles. For more information, see http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS and http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/.
GETTING AIRS DATA THROUGH OPENDAP:You can go directly to the OPeNDAP tree for the AIRS products by beginning at
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/data-holdings/by-access-method.However, as much of the newly available data are scene-based, you may want to do a space-time search to find your scenes of interest. The Mirador search tool (http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/) allows you to do that search and then link through to the corresponding OPeNDAP URLs (Data Access Form) corresponding to individual data files in your results (see screenshot below).
The "Data URL" from the OPeNDAP Server Data Access Form can be cut and pasted into the Data Chooser for URLs, e.g.:
http://airspar1u.ecs.nasa.gov/opendap/Aqua_AIRS_Level2/AIRX2RET.005//2010/158/AIRS.2010.06.07.150.L2.RetStd.v5.2.2.0.G10159122120.hdfData Source Type is "Grid files (netCDF/GRIB/OPeNDAP/GEMPAK)", even for the L1 and L2 swath.
(All the data are available free of charge.)Acknowledgments: These new OPeNDAP capabilities were developed by The HDF Group, at http://www.hdfgroup.org/ (thanks, guys!).
--Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 301-614-5185
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