*** Air temperature NASA data

https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/AIRS3SPD_006/summary

AIRS3SPD: AIRS/Aqua L3 Daily Support Product (AIRS-only) 1 degree x 1 degree V006

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a grating spectrometer (R = 1200) aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. In combination with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), AIRS constitutes an innovative atmospheric sounding group of visible, infrared, and microwave sensors. The L3 support products are similar to the L3 standard products but contain fields which are not fully validated, or are inputs or intermediary values. Because no quality control information is available for some of these fields, values from failed retrievals may be included.

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder/Advance Microwave Sounding Unit

(AIRS/AMSU) Obs4MIPs V2

Air Temperature Description

1b) Technical point of contact for this dataset:

Baijun Tian, Baijun.Tian@jpl.nasa.gov

2. Data Field Description

CF variable name,

units

ta, K

Spatial resolution The vertical resolution is determined by the CMIP6 mandatory levels.

The longitude and latitude resolution is 1 degree by 1 degree.

Temporal

resolution and

extent

This data product is a regularly gridded, monthly averaged air

temperature measured by AIRS/AMSU between September 2002 and

September 2016.

Coverage Global

netCDF R package

Grib R package, rNOMADS
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rNOMADS/versions/2.4.1/topics/ReadGrib