GIOVANNI 3.0.6 RELEASE NOTES

Release Date

March 5, 2008

General Changes

1. New Instances:TRMM_Monthly
2. New Products: OMI Version 3 data added to:

   • omi instance
     • OMTO3e.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded column amount ozone and radiative cloud fraction
     • OMDOAO3e.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded column amount ozone
     • OMTO3D.003: daily 1.0 °x1.0 ° gridded column amount ozone, UV aerosol index and radiative cloud fraction
     • OMNO2E.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded total and tropospheric NO2
   • atrain instance
     • OMAERUV_CPR.003: OMI aerosol product subsetted along CloudSat Track
     • OMCLDO2_CPR.003: OMI cloud (O2-O2) product subsetted along CloudSat Track
     • OMCLDRR_CPR.003: OMI cloud (Raman) product subsetted along CloudSat Track
3. WMS and KMZ Enhancements include:
• Color Palette Preferences
• Overlay of Lat-Lon Maps
• Difference of Lat-Lon Maps

4. Regridding Enhancements service can now regrid to both finer or coarser resolution.
5. Other Features

   • Improved cache management
   • Improved error handling (missing data, missing files, user inputs, etc.)
6. Various bug fixes:
   • Orbit picker fix in atrain instance
   • KMZ import failure
   • Bug to update map button
   • Zero number of profiles in mls instance
   • Adding end-times in AIRS instances
   • Problems with selecting both 2D and 3D parameters in AIRS instances
   • Duplicate input file error in MODIS instances
   • Improvements to KMZ output files.

Instance Specific Changes

TRMM Monthly

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=TRMM_Monthly
• Changes
• This is the initial release of the TRMM Monthly instance
• Products include
  • 3B46 v6: rain rate and relative error
  • 3A12 v6: cloud ice, cloud liquid water, conv rain rate, latent heating, precipitation ice, precipitation water, rain rate, strat rain rate
  • 3B25 v6:cond mean rain rate, conv mean rain rate, conv rain pixel count, rain pixel count, strat mean rain rate, strat rain pixel count, total pixel count, unconditional mean rain rate, unconditional conv mean rain rate, unconditional strat mean rain rate
• Includes the following visualization services:

  • Lat-Lon Map, Time Averaged
  • Animation of Lat-Lon Maps
  • Overlay of Lat-Lon Maps
  • Latitude vs Time Hovmoller Plot
  • Longitude vs Time Hovmoller Plot
  • Latitude vs. Pressure Cross Section
  • Longitude vs. Pressure Cross Section
  • Cross Section
  • Scatter Plot
  • Time Series
  • Time Series, Area Statistics
  • Vertical Profile
• Caveats
• Default map selection is -50 to +50 latitude, but map selector allows one to select beyond this range.

AIRS Daily

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=AIRS_Level3Daily
• Changes
• Bug fixes to 2D and 3D parameter displays

AIRS Monthly

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=AIRS_Level3Month
• Changes
• Bug fixes to 2D and 3D parameter displays

A-Train

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=atrain
• Changes
• Instance name is now officially atrain
• Added new Version 3 OMI Products
  • OMAERUV_CPR.003: OMI aerosol product subsetted along CloudSat Track
  • OMCLDO2_CPR.003: OMI cloud (O2-O2) product subsetted along CloudSat Track
  • OMCLDRR_CPR.003: OMI cloud (Raman) product subsetted along CloudSat Track

HIRDLS

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=hirdls
• Changes
• None

MLS

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=mls
• Changes
• None.

MODIS Daily

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=MODIS_DAILY_L3
• Changes
  • None

MODIS Monthly

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=MODIS_MONTHLY_L3
• Changes
  • None

Ocean Monthly

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=ocean_month
• Changes
  • None

NEESPI

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=neespi
• Changes
  • None

OMI

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=omi
• Changes
  • Added new Version 3 Products

    • OMTO3e.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded column amount ozone and radiative cloud fraction
    • OMDOAO3e.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded column amount ozone
    • OMTO3D.003: daily 1.0 °x1.0 ° gridded column amount ozone, UV aerosol index and radiative cloud fraction
    • OMNO2E.003: daily 0.25°x0.25° gridded total and tropospheric NO2
• Caveats

OMUVB data are still Version 2 and only available through Feb 5, 2006.

TOMS

• URL: http://disc1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=toms
• Changes
  • None

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