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HIRDLS/Aura Level 3 Geopotential Height 1deg Lat Zonal Fourier Coefficients V007 (H3ZFCGPH)

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/aura/hirdls/data306

The "HIRDLS/Aura Level 3 Geopotential Height Zonal Fourier Coefficients" version 7 data product (H3ZFCGPH) contains the entire mission (~3 years) of HIRDLS data expressed as zonal Fourier coefficients in 1 degree latitude bands from -64 to 80 degrees at 121 pressure levels.

Description

The coefficients are computed from the HIRDLS Level 2 profiles with a Kalman filter approach using both forward and backward passes in time. Expressed as the mean and up to 7 sine and cosine coefficients (4 waves for ascending and descending, 7 waves for combined), these coefficients may be used to compute values at any longitude.

The data are provided on a pressure grid with 24 levels per decade, corresponding to about 1 km vertical resolution. The useful vertical range of the data is 1000 to 0.01 hPa. The precision values are given by the root-mean square of the differences between the estimated fields and the input data.

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The data are stored in the version 5 Hierarchical Data Format for the Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS5), which is an extension of the HDF5 format. Each file contains a zonal object with data for the entire mission with separate data fields for ascending (daytime), descending (nighttime), and combined orbit node.

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Provenance · 2 source records, 17 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC1251100913-GES_DISC10 d agoJSON v1
NASA Data Portal77a0cb5f-7d69-4f13-aeb1-ce1378d7f1a97 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmentalmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:hirdlssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/altitude/geopotential-heightsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:aurasource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
updated_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0