Attributes { lat { String units "degrees_north"; String long_name "latitude starting at -89.5, by 1 degree increments"; String standard_name "latitude"; } lon { String units "degrees_east"; String long_name "longitude starting at -179.5, by 1 degree increments"; String standard_name "longitude"; } time { String units "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z"; String long_name "averaging period in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z"; String bounds "time_bnds"; } press_level { String units "hPa"; String long_name "atmospheric layer equivalent pressure"; } nh3_vmr { Float32 _FillValue -999.900024; String units "mol/mol, number of moles of ammonia per mole of air"; String long_name "volume mixing ratio of ammonia in air"; Float32 max 1.80689135e-08; Float32 min 2.10043463e-13; String standard_name "NH3 volume mixing ratio"; } time_bnds { String units "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z"; String long_name "start and end time of the month, in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z"; } NC_GLOBAL { String title "NH3.mar.2003.V3"; String comment "This data are produced by Drs. Juying Warner and Zigang Wei using measurements from the AIRS instrument"; String keywords "EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > Atmopheric Chemistry > Ammonia"; String source "Aqua AIRS AMSU"; String shortname "AIRSAC3MNH3"; String longname "NH3 Volume Mixing Ratio"; String format "netCDF"; Int32 versionid 3; String rangebeginningdate "20030301"; String rangebeginningtime "00:00:00.000000"; String rangeendingdate "20030331"; String rangeendingtime "23:59:59.999999"; String identifierproductdoiauthority "http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/06YIT7GX74FN"; String processing_level "3"; String product_start_date_time "2003-03-01 00:00:00"; String product_end_date_time "2003-03-31 23:59:59"; String product_name_type_id "L3"; String acknowledgment "Support for this research was provided by NASA HQ through ROSES: NNX12AJ05G, NNX14AJ24G, and NNX16AQ67G."; String instrument "Aqua AIRS AMSU"; String product_name_extension "nc"; String featuretype "grid"; String data_structure "grid"; String summary "The Level-3 monthly mean ammonia VMRs in daytime and over land, derived using the measurements from the AIRS and AMSU instruments on the NASA Aqua platform."; String contributor_name "Dr. Juying Warner, University of Maryland, College Park, MD"; String contributor_role "Research PI"; String creator_name "NASA/GSFC GESDISC"; String history "AIRS ammonia from Sep. 2002 through Aug. 2016"; String creator_email "gsfc-help-disc@lists.nasa.gov"; String creator_url "http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/"; String institution "NASA GSFC GES DISC"; String metadata_link "http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/"; String references " Warner, J. X., R. R. Dickerson, Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, Y. Wang, and Q. Liang (2017), Increased atmospheric ammonia over the world’s major agricultural areas detected from space, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072305 Warner, J. X., Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, R. R. Dickerson, and J. B. Nowak (2016), The global tropospheric ammonia distribution as seen in the 13-year AIRS measurement record, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 5467-5479, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5467-2016"; String doi "10.5067/06YIT7GX74FN"; } }