MODIS Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily L3 Global 1km (MOD21A2)
Description:

The new MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) product (MOD21) available in Collection 6 uses a physics-based algorithm to dynamically retrieve both the LST and Emissivity simultaneously for the three MODIS thermal infrared bands (29, 31 and 32) at a spatial resolution of 1 km at nadir. The MOD21 product address the documented cold bias of 3-5 K in the MOD11 heritage split-window products. The MOD21 algorithm is based on the ASTER Temperature Emissivity Separation (TES) algorithm, which uses full radiative transfer simulations for the atmospheric correction, and an emissivity model based on the variability in the surface radiance data to dynamically retrieve both LST and spectral emissivity. The TES algorithm is combined with an improved Water Vapor Scaling (WVS) atmospheric correction scheme to stabilize the retrieval during very warm and humid conditions. Simulations and validation results available in the ATBD have shown consistent accuracies at the 1 K level over all land surface types including vegetation, water, and deserts.

The MOD21 product will include a swath (scene) Level-2 daily product, and daily and eight-day Level 3 gridded products in sinusoidal projection.

Point of Contact:
      Glynn C. Hulley (PI) 
      glynn.hulley@jpl.nasa.gov 

Principal Investigator(s):
      Glynn C. Hulley (PI) 
      MS 183-509 
      Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
      4800 Oak Grove Dr. 
      Pasadena, CA 91109 
      Email: glynn.hulley@jpl.nasa.gov 
      Office: (818) 354-2979

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General Construct
There are total 7 scientific data fields.

LST_1KM
QC
View_Angle
View_Time
Emis_29
Emis_31
Emis_32
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	LST_Day_1KM
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint16
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:   8-day daytime 1km grid Land-surface Temperature
             units:  K
             scale_factor:    0.020000
             add_offset:    0.000000
             valid_range:    7500  65535
             _FillValue:    0

	QC_Day
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Quality control for daytime LST and emissivity
             units:  n/a
             scale_factor:  n/a
             add_offset:  n/a
             valid_range:    0  255
             _FillValue:  n/a
             QA Legend:  Bit Fields Description (Right to Left):
                [0-1]: MODLAND_QA 
                 00: Pixel produced, good quality
                  01: Pixel produced, but check other QA
                  10: Pixel produced, but most probably cloudy
                  11: Pixel not produced due to other reasons than clouds
                  
                [2-3]: Data Quality Flag
                  00: Good data quality of L1B bands 29,31,32
                 01: Missing Pixel
                  10: Fairly calibrated
                  11: Poorly calibrated, TES processing skipped
                  
                [4 - 5]: Emissivity accuracy
                  00: >0.02 (Poor performance)
                  01: 0.015 - 0.02 (Marginal performance)
                  10: 0.01 - 0.015 (Good performance)
                 11: <0.01 (Excellent performance)
                 
                [6 - 7]: LST accuracy
                  00: >2K (Poor performance)
                  01: 1.5 - 2K (Marginal performance)
                  10: 1 - 1.5K (Good performance)
                 11: < 1K (Excellent performance)

	View_Angle_Day
             DATA_Rank: 2
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                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average view zenith angle of daytime Land-surface Temperature
             units:  deg
             scale_factor:    1.000000
             add_offset:    -65.000000
             valid_range:    0  130
             _FillValue:    255

	View_Time_Day
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average time of daytime Land-surface Temperature observation
             units:  hrs
             scale_factor:    0.100000
             add_offset:    0.000000
             valid_range:    0  240
             _FillValue:    255

	LST_Night_1KM
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint16
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:   8-day nighttime 1km grid Land-surface Temperature
             units:  K
             scale_factor:    0.020000
             add_offset:    0.000000
             valid_range:    7500  65535
             _FillValue:    0

	QC_Night
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Quality control for nighttime LST and emissivity
             units:  n/a
             scale_factor:  n/a
             add_offset:  n/a
             valid_range:    0  255
             _FillValue:  n/a
             QA Legend:  Bit Fields Description (Right to Left):
                [0-1]: MODLAND_QA 
                 00: Pixel produced, good quality
                  01: Pixel produced, but check other QA
                  10: Pixel produced, but most probably cloudy
                  11: Pixel not produced due to other reasons than clouds
                  
                [2-3]: Data Quality Flag
                  00: Good data quality of L1B bands 29,31,32
                 01: Missing Pixel
                  10: Fairly calibrated
                  11: Poorly calibrated, TES processing skipped
                  
                [4 - 5]: Emissivity accuracy
                  00: >0.02 (Poor performance)
                  01: 0.015 - 0.02 (Marginal performance)
                  10: 0.01 - 0.015 (Good performance)
                 11: <0.01 (Excellent performance)
                 
                [6 - 7]: LST accuracy
                  00: >2K (Poor performance)
                  01: 1.5 - 2K (Marginal performance)
                  10: 1 - 1.5K (Good performance)
                 11: < 1K (Excellent performance)

	View_Angle_Night
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
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             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
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             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average view zenith angle of nighttime Land-surface Temperature
             units:  deg
             scale_factor:    1.000000
             add_offset:    -65.000000
             valid_range:    0  130
             _FillValue:    255

	View_Time_Night
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average time of nighttime Land-surface Temperature observation
             units:  hrs
             scale_factor:    0.100000
             add_offset:    0.000000
             valid_range:    0  240
             _FillValue:    255

	Emis_29
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average Band 29 emissivity
             units:  n/a
             scale_factor:    0.002000
             add_offset:    0.490000
             valid_range:    1  255
             _FillValue:    0

	Emis_31
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average Band 31 emissivity
             units:  n/a
             scale_factor:    0.002000
             add_offset:    0.490000
             valid_range:    1  255
             _FillValue:    0

	Emis_32
             DATA_Rank: 2
             DATA_Dims:
                YDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
                XDim:MODIS_Grid_8Day_1km_LST21 1200
             DATA_Type: uint8
             DATA_DimensionSizes:[1200][1200]
             Compression:  Gzip
             Gzip_level: 4
             Chunk_sizes:    2  0
             long_name:  Average Band 32 emissivity
             units:  n/a
             scale_factor:    0.002000
             add_offset:    0.490000
             valid_range:    1  255
             _FillValue:    0

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