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    • Monthly Carbon Dioxide in Troposphere (AIRS on AQUA)

    Metadata Updated: March 5, 2026

    Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important greenhouse gas released through natural processes such as respiration and volcano eruptions and through huma activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels. AIRS is the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder, AIRS, was launched aboard the Aqua Spacecraft in 2002 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Afternoon Constellation of satellites known as the ‘A-Train’.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 5, 2026
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 5, 2026
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000044
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 482462e4-ad7c-42bf-8260-f225e6f3243f
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/monthly-carbon-dioxide-in-troposphere-airs-on-aqua
    Old Spatial global
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a1b313dbcfe168d91744588f009755357024c6f4f630877bb77dba676e5414e4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-01-01/2012-01-01

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