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Instruments > Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders > MLS

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MLS  

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  • The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) experiments measure naturally-occurring microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's atmosphere to remotely sense vertical profiles of atmospheric gases, temperature, pressure, and cloud ice. The overall objective of these experiments is to provide information that will help improve our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and global change. The first MLS experiment in space (UARS MLS) was on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) launched 12 Sept 1991. The second (EOS MLS) is on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura mission launched 15 July 2004. EOS MLS began full-up atmospheric science observations on 13 August 2004, with excellent performance to date in all portions of the instrument. Provisional and Stage I validataed data are now publicly available (for information go to EOS MLS data). [From the NASA JPL MLS Web Page] For more information on the MLS instrument see: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ For more information on UARS and the MLS instrument on UARS see: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/uars/instrument.php https://umpgal.gsfc.nasa.gov/ The EOS-AURA web site information and EOS MLS instrument information is at: https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/mls.html Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: MLS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Profilers/Sounders Short_Name: MLS Long_Name: Microwave Limb Sounder End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: UARS Short_Name: AURA End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Microwave Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 118, 190, 240, 640 and 2250 GHz End_Group Online_Resource: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?page=1&keywords=aura Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group (en)

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  • 2020-12-28 16:30:33.0 [sritz] update Definition (The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) experiments measure naturally-occurring microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's atmosphere to remotely sense vertical profiles of atmospheric gases, temperature, pressure, and cloud ice. The overall objective of these experiments is to provide information that will help improve our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and global change. The first MLS experiment in space (UARS MLS) was on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) launched 12 Sept 1991. The second (EOS MLS) is on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura mission launched 15 July 2004. EOS MLS began full-up atmospheric science observations on 13 August 2004, with excellent performance to date in all portions of the instrument. Provisional and Stage I validataed data are now publicly available (for information go to EOS MLS data). [From the NASA JPL MLS Web Page] For more information on the MLS instrument see: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ For more information on UARS and the MLS instrument on UARS see: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/uars/instrument.php https://umpgal.gsfc.nasa.gov/ The EOS-AURA web site information and EOS MLS instrument information is at: https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/mls.html Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: MLS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Profilers/Sounders Short_Name: MLS Long_Name: Microwave Limb Sounder End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: UARS Short_Name: AURA End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Microwave Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 118, 190, 240, 640 and 2250 GHz End_Group Online_Resource: https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?page=1&keywords=aura Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group); update Definition (More information: https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/mls.html); delete Resource (null);

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