Microwave Limb Sounder
Welcome
The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) experiments measure naturally-occurring microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's atmosphere to remotely sense vertical profiles of atmospheric gases, temperature, pressure, and cloud ice. The overall objective of these experiments is to provide information that will help improve our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and global change.
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Latest Publications
- Yung, Y., J. Long, J. Jiang, S. Fan, X. Jiang, and R. Shia, "Effect of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation on Carbon Monoxide in the Stratosphere," Earth and Space Science 6, 7, 1273-1283, doi:10.1029/2018ea000534, 2019. reprint
- Vincent, R.A., S. Kovalam, D.J. Murphy, I.M. Reid, and J.P. Younger, "Trends and Variability in Vertical Winds in the Southern Hemisphere Summer Polar Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere," Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2019jd030735, 2019. reprint
- Po‐Chedley, S., M. Zelinka, N. Jeevanjee, T. Thorsen, and B. Santer, "Climatology explains intermodel spread in tropical upper tropospheric cloud and relative humidity response to greenhouse warming," Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2019gl084786, 2019. reprint
- Errera, Q., S. Chabrillat, Y. Christophe, J. Debosscher, D. Hubert, W. Lahoz, M. Santee, M. Shiotani, S. Skachko, T. von Clarmann, and K. Walker, "Technical note: Reanalysis of Aura MLS chemical observations," Atmos. Chem. Phys. 19, 21, 13647-13679, doi:10.5194/acp-19-13647-2019, 2019. reprint
- Gettelman, A., M.J. Mills, D.E. Kinnison, R.R. Garcia, A.K. Smith, D.R. Marsh, S. Tilmes, F. Vitt, C.G. Bardeen, J. McInerney, H.L. Liu, S.C. Solomon, L.M. Polvani, L.K. Emmons, J.F. Lamarque, J.H. Richter, A.S. Glanville, J.T. Bacmeister, A.S. Phillips, R.B. Neale, I.R. Simpson, A.K. DuVivier, A. Hodzic, and W.J. Randel, "The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 WACCM6," Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2019jd030943, 2019. reprint
MLS FTP Server Shutdown
On June 29, 2018, the MLS FTP server at ftp://mls.jpl.nasa.gov has been permanently shut down. All MLS-related data files are now offered over HTTPS. Please see the relevant section of the MLS website for information on where to find any data you are interested in.
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