Issued patent
MERRA/AS and Climate Analytics-as-a-Service (CAaaS)
An issued NASA patent from the Technology Transfer catalog.
About this technology
Overview
The Modern Era-Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) integrates data from a variety of satellite systems with numerical models to produce a temporally and spatially consistent synthesis of climate variables that are not easily observed. MERRA provides global coverage. The MERRA time period covers the modern era of remotely sensed data, from 1979 to the present. The breadth of MERRA variableswhich include atmosphere, ocean, and land surface productsmakes MERRA ideal for investigating climate variability and for use in an expanding array of applications areas, such as national disasters, civil engineering, ecological forecasting, health and air quality, water resources, and agriculture. However, these data sets are hundreds of terabytes in size, growing to petabytes in size over the coming years. Despite their utility, it is often difficult to use this important information.