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    • OCO-2 Level 1B calibrated, geolocated calibration spectra, Retrospective Processing V11r (OCO2_L1B_Calibration) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

    Version 11r is the current version of the data set. Older versions will no longer be available and are superseded by Version 11r.

    The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is the first NASA missiondesigned to collect space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxidewith the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize theprocesses controlling its buildup in the atmosphere. The OCO-2 project uses the LEOStar-2 spacecraft that carries a single instrument. It incorporates three high-resolution spectrometers that make coincident measurements ofreflected sunlight in the near-infrared CO2 near 1.61 and 2.06 micrometers and inmolecular oxygen (O2) A-Band at 0.76 micrometers. The three spectrometers have different characteristics and are calibrated independently. Their raw data numbers (DN) are delivered correlated in time tothe Level 1B process as Level 1A products. Each band has 1016 spectralelements, although some are masked out in the L2 retrieval.This L1B product results from calibration mode measurements (e.g., Lunar,Solar, Dark observations), and thus it differs from the OCO2_L1B_Science(L1bSc) product. The differences in the product formats are only in the geolocation information provided. Whereas the L1bSc products report geolocation data for each sounding, calibration products report the directionof the boresight vector.This is the retrospective processing where the calibration data is estimated from the full timeseries of data (before, during, and after the measurements), and is expected to be of slightly higher quality.

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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 December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2248663235-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2019-06-27
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category OCO-2, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    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 445a5962-7604-4adc-b6de-3ccc7658a3f5
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C2248663235-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 612b22f9301af6440391ec2c0c40a83a4415bf8f42e1301908b1aaec3a619051
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2014-09-06T00:00:00Z/2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

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