SD-OMIE-KNMI-Nasa.docVIP

OMI Level 2 Aerosol Data Product Specification Date Signature Author: B.Veihelmann J.P. Veefkind Checked: J.F. de Haan Approved: P.F. Levelt Archive: R. Noordhoek Distribution list: OMI Science team Pieternel Levelt KNMI Bert van den Oord KNMI John van de Vegte KNMI Johan de Haan KNMI  Agencies Joost Carpay NIVR EOS-Aura project Industry Jussi Johansson SSF Others  Change status: Issue Date Comments Affected pages 1.0 16-03-2005 Issue 1.0 All 1.1 31-10-2007 update 12, 16 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Purpose of the document 5 1.2 Definitions, acronyms and abbreviations 5 1.3 References 5 1.3.1 Applicable Documents 5 1.3.2 Reference Documents 5 1.4 Overview of the document 5 2 Overview of the product. 6 2.1 Product Identifier 6 2.2 File Names 6 3 The Data File 7 3.1 Description 7 3.2 Format 7 3.3 Structure 7 3.4 Swath Structure 7 3.4.1 Geolocation Fields 9 3.4.2 Data Fields 11 3.5 Metadata 17 3.6 Data File Size 26 4 The Metadata File 26 4.1 Description 26 4.2 Format 26 4.3 Structure 26 Introduction Purpose of the document This document specifies the OMI Level 2 Aerosol data product. This product will be produced by the OMI Aerosol software, as described in AD1. Definitions, acronyms and abbreviations ECS EOS Core System HDF Hierarchical Data Format HDF-EOS Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System MW Multi-Wavelength NRT Near Real Time NUV Near UV ODL Object Description Language OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument ONVS Ozone Near-real-time and Very-fast-delivery System. PGE Product Generation Executive SDP Science Data Production SAA South Atlantic Anomaly TAI International Atomic Time References Applicable Documents AD1 URD for the OMI Aerosol PGE, RS-OMIE-KNMI-543, 05-02-2004 AD2 HDF-EOS Aura File Format Guidelines, NCAR SW-NCA-079, Version 1.3, 27 August 2003. Reference Documents RD1 HDF-EOS Interface Based on HDF5, 175-TP-511-003, May 2002. RD2 Release 6A.07 SDP Toolkit Users Guide for the ECS Project, 333-CD-605-001