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This page provides access to a variety of NASA's MERRA-2 datasets, offering hourly and 3-hourly atmospheric and land surface data.
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The datasets cover diverse parameters, including aerosol properties, radiation, surface fluxes, land characteristics, and meteorological diagnostics.
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MERRA-2 data is valuable for research in climate change, air quality, weather forecasting, and other Earth science disciplines.
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Users can utilize these datasets within Google Earth Engine for analysis, visualization, and modeling purposes.
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These datasets provide comprehensive information on atmospheric components, land-atmosphere interactions, and energy budgets.
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MERRA-2 M2I3NVAER: Aerosol Mixing Ratio V5.12.4
M2I3NVAER (or inst3_3d_aer_Nv) is an instantaneous 3-dimensional 3-hourly data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of assimilations of aerosol mixing ratio parameters at 72 model layers, such as dust, sulphur dioxide, sea salt, black carbon, and … aerosol atmosphere dust mass merra nasa -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXAER: Aerosol Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXAER (or tavg1_2d_aer_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged 2-dimensional data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of assimilated aerosol diagnostics, such as column mass density of aerosol components (black carbon, dust, sea-salt, sulfate, and organic carbon), surface … aerosol atmosphere carbon dust mass merra -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXFLX: Surface Flux Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXFLX (or tavg1_2d_flx_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of assimilated surface flux diagnostics, such as total precipitation, bias corrected total precipitation, surface air temperature, surface specific humidity, surface wind speed, … climate merra precipitation sea-salt so2 so4 -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXLND: Land Surface Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXLND (or tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of land surface diagnostics, such a baseflow flux, runoff, surface soil wetness, root zone soil wetness, water at surface layer, water at … climate cryosphere evaporation ice merra precipitation -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXRAD: Radiation Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXRAD (or tavg1_2d_rad_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of radiation diagnostics, such as surface albedo, cloud area fraction, in cloud optical thickness, surface incoming shortwave flux (i.e. solar radiation), surface … albedo atmosphere climate emissivity merra shortwave -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXSLV: Single-Level Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXSLV (or tavg1_2d_slv_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged 2-dimensional data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of meteorology diagnostics at popularly used vertical levels, such as air temperature at 2-meter (or at 10-meter, 850hPa, 500 hPa, 250hPa), … atmosphere climate humidity merra nasa pressure