OMPS-NPP L2 LP USask Aerosol Extinction Vertical Profile swath daily V1.2

The USask OMPS-LP L2 2D Aerosol v1.2 product provides stratospheric aerosol extinction retrievals performed at the University of Saskatchewan for the central slit of the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler (OMPS-LP) instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The two-dimensional retrieval algorithm accounts for variation in the along orbital track dimension, retrieving an entire orbit simultaneously instead of treating each image independently. Stratospheric aerosol is retrieved from approximately the thermal tropopause to 30 km on a 1 km grid with a vertical resolution of approximately 2 km, and is assumed to be sulfate aerosol following a log-normal particle size distribution.

Each file contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit measured for a full day. Spatial coverage is global (-82 to +82 degrees latitude), and there are about 14.5 orbits per day, each has typically 160 profiles with an along orbital track sampling of 125 km. The files are written using NetCDF4.