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Data Set Short Name: AIRS3QP5
Data Set Long Name: AIRS/Aqua Level 3 pentad quantization in physical units (AIRS Only) V005 (AIRS3QP5) at GES DISC
Platform:Earth Observing System, AQUA
Sensor: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Resolution: 5 days, Daily - < Weekly
Parameters: AIR TEMPERATURE PROFILE, SPECIFIC HUMIDITY PROFILE, CLOUD FRACTION VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION
User's Guide: README.AIR_3QP_.pdf

AIRS/Aqua Level 3 pentad quantization product in physical units (AIRS Only).

The quantization products (QP) are distributional summaries derived from the Level-2 standard retrieval products (of swath type) to provide a more comprehensive set of statistical summaries than the traditional means and standard deviation. The QP products combine the Level 2 standard data parameters over grid cells of 5° x 5° spatial extent for temporal periods of five days. Pentads always start on the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st, and 26th days of the month and may contain as few as 3 days of data or as much as 6 days. They preserve the multivariate distributional features of the original data and so provide a compressed data set that more accurately describes the disparate atmospheric states that is in the original Level-2 swath data set.

The geophysical parameters are: Air Temperature and Water Vapor profiles (11 levels/layers), Cloud fraction (vertical distribution).

(The Shortname for this product is AIRS3QP5)