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The HDF-EOS5 Aura Data Guidelines Whats New

• Cheryl Craig

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What are the Aura Guidelines?

• Common data format developed and adopted by four
  instruments with separate instrument and
  development teams (HIRDLS, MLS, OMI and TES)
• Guidelines developed on top of HDF5/HDF-EOS5 for
  storing each instruments data in a single common
  format

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What are the new features?

• Guidelines for Zonal Mean and Gridded Products
• Follow similar set of naming conventions as for
  the Swath Product (Level 2)
• data organization conventions
• units
• metadata definitions (via HDF/HDF-EOS attributes)
  

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Aura Guidelines for Standards Process Group

• Aura Guidelines rewritten for NASAs Standards
  Process Group
• Submitted as a Technical Note
• Possibly submitting another Technical Note
  regarding the process Aura used to develop the
  Guidelines

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Aura Document Location

• http//www.eos.ucar.edu/hirdls/HDFEOS_Aura_File_Fo
  rmat_Guidelines.pdf
• Current Authors
• Cheryl Craig NCAR (HIRDLS)
• Pepijn Veefkind KNMI (OMI)
• Peter Leonard SSAI (OMI)
• Paul Wagner JPL (MLS)
• Christina Vuu Raytheon (MLS)
• Doug Shepard JPL (TES)