MOD08_M3.061 Terra Atmosphere Monthly Global Product

Dataset Availability

2000-02-01T00:00:00Z–2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dataset Provider

NASA LAADS DAAC at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth Engine Snippet

ee.ImageCollection("MODIS/061/MOD08_M3")

Tags

atmosphere geophysical global modis monthly nasa temperature terra usgs

mod08

mod08-m3

Description

MOD08_M3 V6.1 is an atmosphere global product that contains monthly 1 x 1 degree grid average values of atmospheric parameters. These parameters are related to atmospheric aerosol particle properties, total ozone burden, atmospheric water vapor, cloud optical and physical properties, and atmospheric stability indices. The product also provides means, standard deviations, QA weighted statistics, log-normal distributions, uncertainty estimates, and statistics for fractions of pixels that satisfy some condition. Below is a subset of the bands, for a complete list see the MOD08 Band List.

Documentation:

• User's Guide

• Science Data Product Software Documentation

• MYD08_M3 product description

• File specification document

Bands

Resolution
111320 meters

Bands

Name	Min	Max	Scale	Description
Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_Ocean_Mean_Mean	-100	5000	0.001	Aerosol optical thickness at 0.55 microns for both ocean (best) and land (corrected): mean of daily mean
Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_Ocean_Std_Deviation_Mean	-100	5000	0.001	Aerosol optical thickness at 0.55 microns for both ocean (best) and land (corrected): mean of daily standard deviation
Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_QA_Mean_Mean_470	-100	5000	0.001	Corrected aerosol optical depth (land) at 0.47 microns: mean of level-3 QA weighted mean
Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_QA_Std_Deviation_Mean_470	-100	5000	0.001	Corrected aerosol optical depth (land) at 0.47 microns: mean of level-3 weighted QA standard deviation
Cirrus_Fraction_SWIR_FMean	0	10000	0.0001	Cirrus area fraction: mean of daily fraction
Cirrus_Fraction_SWIR_FStd	0	10000	0.0001	Cirrus area fraction: standard deviation of daily fraction
Cloud_Optical_Thickness_Liquid_Log_Mean_Mean	0	4176	0.001	Liquid water cloud optical thickness: mean of daily log mean
Cloud_Optical_Thickness_Liquid_Log_Std_Deviation_Mean	0	4176	0.001	Liquid water cloud optical thickness: mean of daily log standard deviation
Cloud_Optical_Thickness_Liquid_Mean_Uncertainty	0	2000	0.01	Liquid water cloud optical thickness: multi-day absolute uncertainty estimate derived from the daily absolute uncertainty estimate
Cloud_Optical_Thickness_Liquid_Log_Mean_Uncertainty	0	4477	0.001	Liquid water cloud optical thickness: multi-day absolute log uncertainty estimate derived from the daily absolute log uncertainty estimate

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

This dataset is in the public domain and is available without restriction on use and distribution. See NASA\'s Earth Science Data & Information Policy for additional information.

Citations

Citations:

• Platnick, S., M. King, P. Hubanks, 2015. MODIS Atmosphere L3 Monthly Product. NASA MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Goddard Space Flight Center, doi:10.5067/MODIS/MOD08_M3.061

DOIs

• https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD08_M3.061

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('MODIS/061/MOD08_M3')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2018-01-01', '2018-05-01'));
var aerosolOpticalDepth =
    dataset.select('Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_Ocean_Mean_Mean');
var aerosolOpticalDepthVis = {
  min: 0,
  max: 3000,
  palette: ['ffffff', '1303ff', '01ff09', 'ff2f00'],
};
Map.setCenter(6.746, 46.529, 2);
Map.addLayer(
    aerosolOpticalDepth, aerosolOpticalDepthVis, 'Aerosol Optical Depth');

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MOD08_M3.061 Terra Atmosphere Monthly Global Product

MOD08_M3 V6.1 is an atmosphere global product that contains monthly 1 x 1 degree grid average values of atmospheric parameters. These parameters are related to atmospheric aerosol particle properties, total ozone burden, atmospheric water vapor, cloud optical and physical properties, and atmospheric stability indices. The product also provides means, standard …

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2000-02-01T00:00:00Z/2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

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• https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD08_M3.061