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Monthly Carbon Dioxide in Troposphere (AIRS on AQUA)

Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important greenhouse gas released through natural processes such as respiration and volcano eruptions and through huma activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels. AIRS is the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder, AIRS, was launched aboard the Aqua Spacecraft in 2002 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Afternoon Constellation of satellites known as the ‘A-Train’.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier NASA-0000044
Data First Published 2018-06-25
Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 2660d916-9e40-4d4d-8044-dfad6fbb7962
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/monthly-carbon-dioxide-in-troposphere-airs-on-aqua
Old Spatial global
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a1b313dbcfe168d91744588f009755357024c6f4f630877bb77dba676e5414e4
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2002-01-01/2012-01-01

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