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    • UARS Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) Level 3AL V011 (UARWI3AL) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

    The Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) Level 3AL data product consists of daily, 4 degree increment latitude-ordered vertical profiles of meridional and zonal wind components, and temperature. The instrument was a Michelson interferometer designed to measure Doppler shifts of spectral lines in the visible between 550 and 780 nm. WINDII was flown on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and designed to measure wind, temperature and emission rates in the mesosphere and thermosphere between 80 and 300 km at about 5 km resolution. Data were collected between latitude 40S and 72N and 72S and 40N, alternating each satellite yaw cycle of about 36 days. The WINDII Level 3AL data were processed with the version 11 algorithm.

    The WINDII level 3AL product consists of 3 granules per day. A data granule is one WINDII species or subtype per day.

    Data are on the UARS standard altitude levels (in km) given by:

    z(i) = 5i for 1 <= i <= 12 z(i) = 60 + (i-12)3 for 13 <= i <= 32 z(i) = 120 + (i-32)*5 for 33 <= i <= 88

    Each of the 3 WINDII granules is accompanied by an additional parameter file, designated as level 3LP. The parameter file, contains additional ancillary and quality information not found in the 3AL files. The data files are available in a binary record oriented format.

    Access & Use Information

    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 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1273348633-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 1999-03-12
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category UARS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1273348633-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -80.0 180.0 80.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 68bdbfabdcc0bc32e2b71f1f6d40819871864a3aa0ee9afbb4825a4d31b07198
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1991-11-04T00:00:00Z/1997-08-19T23:59:59.999Z

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