GOSAT Data Products


IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name GOSAT Data Products
Metadata Identifier GOSAT_Data_Products20230727091304-en

CONTACT

CONTACT on DATASET

Name GOSAT Project
Organization Satellite Observation Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Address Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
TEL +81-29-850-2035
FAX +81-29-850-2219
E-mail gosat-prj1@nies.go.jp

DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name GOSAT Project
Organization Satellite Observation Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies
E-mail gosat-prj1@nies.go.jp

DATASET CREATOR

Name GOSAT Project
Organization Satellite Observation Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies
E-mail gosat-prj1@nies.go.jp

DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2023-07-27

DATE OF DATASET

  • creation : 2016-01-22

DATASET OVERVIEW

Abstract

The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) is the world's first spacecraft to measure the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, the two major greenhouse gases, from space. The spacecraft was launched successfully on January 23, 2009, and has been operating properly since then. Through analyzing the GOSAT observational data, scientists will be able to ascertain the global distribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and how the sources and sinks of these gases vary with seasons, years, and locations. These new findings will enhance scientific understanding on causes of global warming. Also, they will serve as fundamental information for improving climate change prediction and establishing sound plans for mitigating global warming. The GOSAT Project is a joint effort of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Topic Category(ISO19139)

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Temporal Extent

Begin Date 2009-04-23
End Date Under Continuation

Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude 90
West bound longitude -180
Eastbound longitude 180
South bound latitude -90

Keywords

Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme [Atmosphere ] > [Atmospheric Chemistry ] > [Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds ] > [Carbon Dioxide ], [Atmosphere ] > [Atmospheric Chemistry ] > [Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds ] > [Methane ], [Atmosphere ] > [Atmospheric Water Vapor ] > [Water Vapor ] GCMD_science
theme Earth Observation Satellites > GOSAT GCMD_platform
theme Climate GEOSS

Online Resource

DATA POLICY

Data Policy by the Data Provider

GOSAT products are provided through the data providing website, GOSAT Data Archive Service (GDAS), free of charge only when each GOSAT data user agrees upon the purpose, and the terms and conditions concerning the utilization of the GOSAT data defined in the GOSAT/GOSAT-2 Data Policy. The Ministry of Environment of Japan (MOE), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (hereafter collectively referred to as "Three Parties"), which are jointly promoting the GOSAT Project, shall own copyrights and any other intellectual property rights of all GOSAT data. Any publication of outcomes obtained in consequence of the use of the GOSAT data must be accompanied by the name of Three Parties, JAXA/NIES/MOE. Users are allowed to redistribute only standard products to a third party; however, users are prohibited to use other products for any other purpose than the Three Parties and user, and to redistribute other products to a third party. Please refer to the GOSAT/GOSAT-2 Data Policy for more details.

https://www.nies.go.jp/soc/en/documents/datapolicy/

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