NASA GSESA Project

The Global Surface Emissivity Spectral Atlas (GSESA) database contains global, monthly climatology infrared emissivity functional Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) scores in 0.25 x 0.25 latitude-longitude resolution. An eigenvector file and a reader file allow customers to produce emissivity spectra. The emissivity functional EOF scores were developed using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument on the METOP-A, METOP-B, and METOP-C satellites for the period 2007-07-01 to 2025-01-31. An inversion scheme, dealing with cloudy as well as cloud-free radiances observed ...