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CEOS Missions, Instruments, and Measurements (MIM) keywords 

The CEOS Missions, Instruments, and Measurements (MIM) keywords contain information on many key measurements of interest to users of Earth observation satellite data.

Earth observation satellites provide important data about the Earth and its environment, helping develop our understanding of the basic Earth System and its human influences. These data cover a wide range of geophysical parameters, spanning the whole spectrum of the environment – atmosphere, land, oceans, ice and snow.

[Text provided by: Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). October 2014. CEOS Mission, Instruments, and Measurements (MIM) Keywords. URL: http://database.eohandbook.com/about.aspx]

In order to provide more direct access to these data, each MIM keyword has been mapped to a Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keyword. A reference table shows the mapping between the MIM keywords and the GCMD keywords.

Click on the keywords below to view data sets related to each keyword:

Atmosphere

Aerosol absorption optical depth (column/profile)

Aerosol optical depth (column/profile)

Aerosol effective radius (column/profile)

Aerosol Extinction / Backscatter (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – BrO (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – C2H2 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – C2H6 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CFC-11 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CFC-12 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CH3Br (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CH4 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – ClO (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – ClONO2 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CO (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – CO2 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – COS (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – HCFC-22 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – HCl (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – HNO3 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – N2O (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – N2O5 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – NO (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – NO2 (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – OClO (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – OH (column/profile)

Atmospheric Chemistry – SO2 (column/profile)

Atmospheric pressure (over land surface)

Atmospheric pressure (over sea surface)

Atmospheric specific humidity (column/profile)

Atmospheric stability index

Atmospheric temperature (at surface)

Atmospheric temperature (column/profile)

Temperature of tropopause

Cloud base height

Cloud cover

Cloud imagery

Cloud mask

Cloud drop size (at cloud top)

Cloud ice (column/profile)

Cloud ice content (at cloud top)

Cloud liquid water (column/profile)

Cloud optical depth

Cloud top height

Cloud top temperature

Cloud type

Downwelling long-wave radiation at the Earth surface

Outgoing long-wave radiation at Earth surface

Outgoing long-wave radiation at TOA

Downwelling short-wave radiation at the Earth surface

Outgoing short-wave radiation at TOA

Downwelling solar radiation at TOA

Earth surface albedo

Height of the top of the Planetary Boundary Layer

Height of tropopause

Lightning detection

Long-wave cloud emissivity

Long-wave Earth surface emissivity

Outgoing long-wave radiation at Earth surface

Outgoing long-wave radiation at TOA

Outgoing short-wave radiation at TOA

Outgoing spectral radiance at TOA

Ozone profile

Precipitation index (daily cumulative)

Precipitation Profile (liquid or solid)

Precipitation rate (liquid) at the surface

Precipitation rate (solid) at the surface

Short-wave cloud reflectance

Short-wave Earth surface bi-directional reflectance

Total electron content (TEC)

Turbulence

Visibility

Water vapour imagery

Wind profile (horizontal)

Wind profile (vertical)

Wind speed over land surface (horizontal)

Wind speed over sea surface (horizontal)

Wind vector over land surface (horizontal)

Wind vector over sea surface (horizontal)

Wind stress

Gravity and Magnetic Fields

Geoid

Gravity field

Gravity gradients

Magnetic field (scalar)

Magnetic field (vector)


Land

Crustal Motion

Crustal plates positioning

Fire area

Fire temperature

Fractionally absorbed PAR (FPAR)

Land cover

Land surface imagery

Land surface temperature

Land surface topography

Leaf Area Index (LAI)

Long-wave Earth surface emissivity

Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)

Soil moisture at the surface

Soil type

Vegetation Canopy (cover)

Vegetation Canopy (height)

Vegetation Cover

Vegetation type

Volcanic ash


Ocean

Atmospheric pressure (over sea surface)

Bathymetry

Color dissolved organic matter (CDOM)

Downwelling long-wave radiation at the Earth surface

Downwelling short-wave radiation at the Earth surface

Fractionally absorbed PAR (FPAR)

Ocean chlorophyll concentration

Ocean dynamic topography

Ocean imagery

Ocean salinity

Ocean surface currents (vector)

Ocean suspended sediment concentration

Outgoing long-wave radiation at Earth surface

Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)

Sea level

Sea surface temperature

Significant wave height

Wave directional energy frequency spectrum

Wind profile (vertical)

Wind speed over sea surface (horizontal)

Wind vector over sea surface (horizontal)


Snow and Ice

Glacier cover

Glacier motion

Glacier topography

Ice sheet topography

Iceberg fractional cover

Iceberg height

Permafrost

Sea-ice cover

Sea-ice sheet topography

Sea-ice surface temperature

Sea-ice thickness

Sea-ice type

Snow albedo

Snow cover

Snow detection (mask)

Snow melting status (wet/dry)

Snow surface temperature

Snow water equivalent