MEaSUREs blue band total column water vapor sample data for the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

This dataset contains the MEaSUREs OMI Total Column Water Vapor (TCWV) data and their related data used in the paper titled “Development of the MEaSUREs blue band water vapor algorithm – Towards a long-term data record” by Wang et al. (2023). The unzipped archive contains the following three directories. 

OMI-H2O-L2/ contains the MEaSUREs Level 2 data (in molecules/cm2) in netCDF4 format for January and July 2005 and 2006. Selected supporting data are also included in each file.

OMI-H2O-L3/ contains MRaSUREs Level 3 data (0.25 degree by 0.25 degree, in molecules/cm2) generated using the standard filtering criteria in netCDF4 format for January and July 2005 and 2006. Selected supporting data are also included.

Model3_ncresult/ contains netCDF4 formatted files for the MEaSUREs OMI TCWV data (in mm), the AMSR_E TCWV data sampled onto the corresponding OMI pixel locations, and the LightGBM model 3 predictions for the OMI pixels.

The linux command ‘ncdump -h filename’ can be used to examine the contents of netCDF4 files. Due to the current size limit of Zenodo, only a small subset of the MEaSUREs data is archived here. The full dataset will be released elsewhere, e.g., NASA EARTHDATA GES DISC.