MERRA-2 M2T1NXSLV: Single-Level Diagnostics V5.12.4

NASA/GSFC/MERRA/slv/2
Dataset Availability
1980-01-01T00:00:00Z–2024-09-01T23:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("NASA/GSFC/MERRA/slv/2")
Tags
humidity merra nasa pressure temperature vapor water wind
condensation
omega
slv

Description

M2T1NXSLV (or tavg1_2d_slv_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged 2-dimensional data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of meteorology diagnostics at popularly used vertical levels, such as air temperature at 2-meter (or at 10-meter, 850hPa, 500 hPa, 250hPa), wind components at 50-meter (or at 2-meter, 10-meter, 850 hPa, 500hPa, 250 hPa), sea level pressure, surface pressure, and total precipitable water vapor (or ice water, liquid water). The data field is time-stamped with the central time of an hour starting from 00:30 UTC, e.g.: 00:30, 01:30, ... , 23:30 UTC.

MERRA-2 is the latest version of global atmospheric reanalysis for the satellite era produced by NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) using the Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS) version 5.12.4. The dataset covers the period of 1980-present with the latency of ~3 weeks after the end of a month.

Bands

Resolution
69375 meters

Y Resolution
55000 meters

Bands

Name Units Description
CLDPRS Pa

Cloud top pressure

CLDTMP K

Cloud top temperature

DISPH m

Zero plane displacement height

H1000 m

Height at 1000 mb

H250 m

Height at 250 hPa

H500 m

Height at 500 hPa

H850 m

Height at 850 hPa

OMEGA500 Pa/s

Omega at 500 hPa

PBLTOP Pa

Pbltop pressure

PS Pa

Surface pressure

Q250 Mass fraction

Specific humidity at 250 hPa

Q500 Mass fraction

Specific humidity at 500 hPa

Q850 Mass fraction

Specific humidity at 850 hPa

QV10M Mass fraction

10-meter specific humidity

QV2M Mass fraction

2-meter specific humidity

SLP Pa

Sea level pressure

T10M K

10-meter air temperature

T250 K

Air temperature at 250 hPa

T2MDEW K

Dew point temperature at 2 m

T2MWET K

Wet bulb temperature at 2 m

T2M K

2-meter air temperature

T500 K

Air temperature at 500 hPa

T850 K

Air temperature at 850 hPa

TO3 Dobson

Total column ozone

TOX kg/m^2

Total column odd oxygen

TQI kg/m^2

Total precipitable ice water

TQL kg/m^2

Total precipitable liquid water

TQV kg/m^2

Total precipitable water vapor

TROPPB Pa

Tropopause pressure (TROPP) based on blended estimate

TROPPT Pa

Tropopause pressure based on thermal estimate

TROPPV Pa

Tropopause pressure based on epv estimate

TROPQ Mass fraction

Tropopause specific humidity using blended tropp (TROPPB) estimate

TROPT K

Tropopause temperature using blended tropp estimate

TS K

Surface skin temperature

U10M m/s

10-meter eastward wind

U250 m/s

Eastward wind at 250 hPa

U2M m/s

2-meter eastward wind

U500 m/s

Eastward wind at 500 hPa

U50M m/s

Eastward wind at 50 meters

U850 m/s

Eastward wind at 850 hPa

V10M m/s

10-meter northward wind

V250 m/s

Northward wind at 250 hPa

V2M m/s

2-meter northward wind

V500 m/s

Northward wind at 500 hPa

V50M m/s

Northward wind at 50 meters

V850 m/s

Northward wind at 850 hPa

ZLCL m

Lifting condensation level

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NASA/GSFC/MERRA/slv/2')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2022-02-01', '2022-02-02'));
var surface_pressure = dataset.select('PS');
var surface_pressure_vis = {
  min: 81100,
  max: 117000,
  palette: ['001137', '01abab', 'e7eb05', '620500']
};
Map.setCenter(-95.62, 39.91, 2);
Map.addLayer(surface_pressure, surface_pressure_vis);
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