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Last Aura Science Team Meeting was held in Helsinki, Finland - September 12, 2011 (see "Presentations")
The Next Aura Science Team Meeting will be held in Pasadena, California - Oct 1-3, 2012

Welcome to the EOS Aura Data Support Web Site at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).

Aura is the EOS chemistry mission which aims to answer three important questions: is the ozone layer recovering, is air quality getting worse, and is the Earth's climate changing? Aura will continue the long term series of atmospheric chemistry measurements made by earlier missions. The Aura spacecraft operates in a 705 km sun-synchronous polar orbit, with an ascending equator crossing at 1:45 PM. The satellite carries four state-of-the-art instruments:

Data Access:
To order any of the OMI, MLS or HIRDLS data, please click on the "Data Access" link on menu bar. * NOTE: TES data are available from the ASDC located atNASA Langley Research Center.

Parameters Measured by Aura:

(Chart showing parameters measured by Aura.)

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Related Data:

Related atmospheric chemistry and dynamics data sets are available from the GES DISC, including UARS, TOMS, GOME, BUV/ SBUV/ SSBUV, LIMS, TOVS, and AIRS. Solar irradiance data from SORCE and UARS are also available.

 


Latest News

Monthly time-series of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm over the southern hemisphere for land (red line) and ocean (black line).
Apr 16, 2012 - SeaWiFS Deep Blue (SWDB) aerosol monthly products now available in Giovanni

Giovanni now provides monthly averages for aerosols over land and ocean for full SeaWiFS mission

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Merged AOD daily map of episodic dust event, March 3, 2003, viewed with Google Earth
Apr 02, 2012 - Announcing AeroStat: Online Platform for Statistical Intercomparison of Aerosols

Aerostat is also the first data portal for the next-generation Giovanni architecture

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Even the lives of meerkats have been studied with the aid of Giovanni.  (Image by freeimageslive.co.uk - pmartin)
Mar 29, 2012 - Final tally of Giovanni publications for 2011 yields unprecedented numbers

50 new publications push annual total to 164; full total nears 500 with first 2012 papers

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Though it is no longer acquiring data, the SeaWiFS mission is still contributing to science, now with advanced aerosol data
Mar 06, 2012 - SeaWiFS "Deep Blue" aerosol products ready for visualization and analysis

New Giovanni data portal provides atmospheric aerosol data from oceanographic satellite mission

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Preview image: The new NASA GES DISC Homepage
Feb 16, 2012 - GES DISC Web Site Update - coming soon!

New look for Web site of NASA earth science data archive

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Last updated: Mar 21, 2012 02:50 PM ET