Parameter Information Locator Tool

The Parameter Information Locator Tool (PILoT) permits a search of DAAC data products by parameter. A broad search can be performed by specifying just the parameter name, or a more specific search can be performed by specifying details such as Earth science topics, variables etc.

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Atmosphere
Biosphere
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Aerosols
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Atmospheric Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry/Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
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Atmospheric Chemistry/Sulfur Compounds
Atmospheric Pressure
Atmospheric Radiation
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Atmospheric Water Vapor
Atmospheric Winds
Clouds
Ecological Dynamics
Infrared Wavelenghts
Infrared Wavelengths
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Microbiota Taxonomy
Microwave
Ocean Chemistry
Ocean Circulation
Ocean Optics
Ocean Pressure
Ocean Temperature
Ocean Winds
Plant Taxonomy
Platform Characteristics
Precipitation
Radar
Sensor Characeristics
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Snow/Ice
Solar Activity
Ultraviolet Wavelengths
Vegetation
Vegetation Taxonomy
Visible Wavelengths

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Absorption
Aerosol Extinction
Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness
Aerosol Particle Properties
Aerosol Radiance
Air Temperature
Airglow
Atmospheric Pressure Measurements
Atmospheric Stability
Attenuation/Transmission
Attitude Characteristics
Brightness Temperature
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon Monoxide
Carbonate
Chlorine Monoxide
Chlorine Nitrate
Chlorofluorocarbons
Chlorophyll
Cloud Amount/Frequency
Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Cloud Emissivity
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness
Cloud Precipitable Water
Cloud Reflectance
Cloud Top Pressure
Cloud Top Temperature
Coccolithophores
Condensation
Dew Point
Dinitrogen Pentoxide
Doppler Velocity
Droplet Concentration/Size
Electron Flux
Emissivity
Energy Deposition
Evaporation
Extinction Coefficients
Fluorescence
Gelbstoff
Geopotential Height
Heat Flux
Humidity
Hydrogen Chloride
Hydrogen Fluoride
Incoming Shortwave Radiation
Infrared Imagery
Infrared Radiance
Inorganic Carbon
Liquid Water Equivalent
Marine Microbiota
Methane
Methyl Cyanide
Microalgae
Microwave Radiance
Nitric Acid
Nitric Oxide
Nitrogen
Nitrogen Dioxide
Nitrous Oxide
Ocean Color
Ocean Mixed Layer
Organic Matter
Outgoing Longwave Radiation
Ozone
Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Photosynthetically Active Radiation Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
Phytoplankton
Pigments
Plankton
Precipitable Water
Precipitation Amount
Precipitation Rate
Primary Production
Proton Flux
Radar Backscatter
Radar Reflectivity
Radiance
Radiative Flux
Rain
Reflectance
Scattering
Sea Level Pressure
Sea Surface Temperature
Sensor Count
Sensor Counts
Sigma Naught
Skin Temperature
Snow Density
Solar Irradiance
Solar Radiation
Solar Ultraviolet
Solar X-rays
Sublimation
Sulfur Dioxide
Surface Air Temperature
Surface Pressure
Surface Winds
Suspended Solids
Temperature Profile
Temperature Profiles
Thermal Infrared
Ultraviolet Radiance
Upper Level Winds
Vegetation Index
Vertical Wind Motion
Viewing Geometry
Visible Imagery
Visible Radiance
Water Vapor
Water Vapor Profiles
Water Vapour Profiles
Water-leaving Radiance

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2.0 * TB(19V) - TB (21V)
Absorption
Aerosol Extinction
Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness
Aerosol Type
Aerosol model
Aerosol optical thickness at 865 nm
Aerosol radiance at 765 nm
Aerosol radiance ratio (Clear water epsilon 531nm/667nm)
Aerosol radiance ratio (Epsilon 765nm/865nm)
Air Temperature
Airglow
Angstrom Coefficient
Angstrom Coefficient, 510-865 nm
Asymmetry Factor
Atmospheric Pressure Measurements
Atmospheric Temperature
Attenuation/Transmission
Attitude Characteristics
Backscattering Ratio
Calcite
Calcium Carbonate
Carbon Export
Carbon Monoxide
Channel Reflectance
Chlorine Monoxide
Chlorine Nitrate
Chlorofluorocarbons
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll fluorescence baseline
Chlorophyll fluorescence efficiency
Chlorophyll fluorescence line height
Chlorophyll-a + pheopigment (fluorometric empirical)
Chlorophyll-a +pheopigment (fluorometric empirical)
Chlorophyll-a concentration
Chlorophyll-a concentration (HPLC empirical)
Chlorophyll-a concentration (SeaWiFS analog - OC3M)
Chlorophyll-a concentration (semianalytic algorithm)
Cirrus Reflectance
Clear-sky Outgoing Longwave Radiation
Cloud Fraction
Cloud Ice Path
Cloud Ice/Water
Cloud Liquid Water Path
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
Cloud Particle Effective Radius
Cloud Precipitable Water
Cloud Presence
Cloud Reflectance
Cloud Top Pressure
Cloud Top Temperature
Cloud Water Path
Cloud-Cleared Radiance
Column Averaged Dry Carbon Dioxide Volumetric Mixing Ratio
Conditional Rain Rate
Daytime Brightness Temperature from Mid-IR Bands
Daytime Brightness Temperature from Thermal Bands
Daytime Infrared Radiance from Mid-IR Bands
Daytime Infrared Radiance from Thermal Bands
Detached coccolith concentration
Dew Point
Diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (K490)
Dinitrogen Pentoxide
Dissolved Organic Matter
Doppler Velocity
Effective Optical Depth
Effective Radius
Electron Flux
Energy Deposition
Epsilon of aerosol correction at 765 and 865nm
Extinction Coefficients
Gelbstoff
Gelbstoff absorption coefficient at 400nm
Geopotential Height
Geopotential Heights at Pressure Level
Geopotential Heights at Surface
Glint radiance
Humidity
Hydrogen Chloride
Hydrogen Fluoride
IR Surface Emissivity
IR Surface Reflectivity
Ice or Snow Concentration
Incoming Shortwave Radiation
Infrared Radiance
Instantaneous absorbed radiation by phytoplankton (ARP)
Instantaneous photosynthetically available radiation (IPAR)
Latent Heating
Layer Column Carbon Monoxide
Layer Column Methane
Layer Column Ozone
Layer Column Water Vapor
Liquid Water Equivalent
Low Level
Marine Microbiota
Mass Concentration
Methane
Methyl Cyanide
Microalgae
Microwave Radiance
Microwave Surface Brightness
Mixed layer depth
New Nitrogen Production
Nighttime Brightness Temperature from Mid-IR Bands
Nighttime Brightness Temperature from Thermal Bands
Nighttime Infrared Radiance from Mid-IR Bands
Nighttime Infrared Radiance from Thermal Bands
Nitric Acid
Nitric Oxide
Nitrogen Dioxide
Nitrous Oxide
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 412 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 443 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 488 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 490 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 510 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 520 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 531 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 550 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 551 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 555 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 667 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 670 nm
Normalized water-leaving radiance at 678 nm
Ocean Color
Optical Depth
Outgoing Longwave Radiation Flux
Ozone Volume Mixing Ratio
Particulate Inorganic Carbon
Photosynthetically Active Radiation Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
Phycoerythrobilin concentration (PEB)
Phycourobilin concentration (PUB)
Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 675 nm
Pigment concentration in coccolithophore blooms
Pigments
Plankton
Precipitable Water
Precipitation Amount
Precipitation Rate
Primary Production
Proton Flux
Radar Backscatter
Radar Reflectivity
Radiance @ 0.63um
Radiance @ 1.6um
Radiance @ 10.8um
Radiance @ 12.0um
Radiance @ 3.75um
Radiances
Radiative Flux
Rain
Rain Probability
Rain Rate
Rayleigh radiance
Reflectance
Reflected Flux
Satellite Local Zenith angle
Satellite azimuth
Satellite zenith
Sea Level Pressure
Sea surface temperature (daytime) 11 micrometer
Sea surface temperature (daytime) 4 micrometer
Sea surface temperature (nighttime) 11 micrometer
Sea surface temperature (nighttime) 4 micrometer
Sensor Count
Sensor Counts
Sigma Naught
Solar Geometry
Solar Irradiance
Solar Ultraviolet
Solar X-rays
Solar azimuth
Solar zenith
Spectral Emissivity at the 7 Microwave Frequencies
Spectral IR Bidirectional Surface Reflectivities
Spectral IR Surface Emissivities
Sulfur Dioxide
Surface Air Temperature
Surface Pressure
Surface Skin Temperature
Temperature Profiles
Total Cloud Liquid Water
Total Column
Total Ozone Burden
Total Precipitable Water Vapor
Total Suspended Matter concentration
Total absorption coefficient at 412 nm
Total absorption coefficient at 443 nm
Total absorption coefficient at 488 nm
Total absorption coefficient at 531 nm
Total absorption coefficient at 551 nm
Total pigment concentration (HPLC
Total pigment concentration (HPLC empirical)
Transmitted Flux
U wind component
Ultraviolet Radiance
Upper Level
Upper Level Winds
V wind component
Vertical Profile
Vertical Wind Motion
Water Vapor
Water Vapor Mass Mixing Ratio
Water Vapor Saturation Mass Mixing Ratio
Whitecap radiance

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AIRS
AIRS/AMSU
AVHRR
CZCS
MODIS
Model
OCTS
PR
Radar
SEAWIFS
SEAWIFS (ancillary)
SORCE SIM
SORCE SOLSTICE
SORCE TIM
SORCE XPS
SSM/I
TMI
TOMS
UARS CLAES
UARS HALOE
UARS HRDI
UARS ISAMS
UARS MLS
UARS PEM
UARS SOLSTICE
UARS SUSIM
UARS WINDII
VIRS