What is “Golden Set of Channels” offered for AIRS channel subsetting services ?
These are the groups of channels recommended by the AIRS Science Team for channel subsetting of AIRS L1B and L2 products. See table below. The grouping is generally based on hardware module in the AIRS instrument. The channel number range and the frequency range in addition to module name for each set are also listed to give a better description of each set. These are meant to make it easy for users to select all channels in various frequency ranges. The “comments” in this table are only meant as comments to let users know typical uses for data in this range. For example M-06 has the comment “Ozone”. Not all channels in this set are necessarily good for ozone and not all ozone channels are in this set. It is the set of all channels on module 6, and the most prominent feature of this section of the spectrum is ozone sensitivity. One may also note that frequency ranges overlap somewhat between the modules, so frequency ranges can be deceptive.
