The GOLD mission of opportunity flies an ultraviolet (UV) imaging spectrograph on a geostationary satellite to measure densities and temperatures in Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere and to understand the global-scale response to forcing in the integrate Sun-Earth system. Visit 'https://gold.cs.ucf.edu' for more details.

This is a data product from the NASA Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, an Heliophysics Explorer mission of opportunity launched in January 2018.  Responsibility of the mission science falls to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Richard Eastes at University of Colorado/LASP.  Validation of the L1B data products falls to the instrument lead investigators/scientists. * EUV  Dr. Bill McClintock Validation of the L2 data products falls to Computational Physics, Inc. * Dr. Jerry Lumpe  (https://gold.cs.ucf.edu/). Overall validation of the products is overseen by the GOLD Project Scientist Dr. Alan Burns. Users of these data should contact and acknowledge the Principal Investigator Dr. Richard Eastes and the party directly responsible for the data product and the NASA Explorers Project Office.

SPDF mods: For depend_*: nscans -> scan_start_time, nlats -> latitude, nlons -> longitude  Fixed A -> A50 for some char formats.With release 3 of the data, nlats changed from 104 to 52 and nlons from 92 to 46

Data_revision Logical_source PI_name TEXT Mission_group Data_version Data_type Generation_date date_start Instrument_type PI_affiliation Source_name Data_cycle Acknowledgement Logical_source_description Discipline Logical_file_id date_end Descriptor Project Software_version

O/N2 Column density ratio of atomic oxygen to molecular nitrogen 

FORMAT DEPEND_1 FIELDNAM DEPEND_0 LABLAXIS DEPEND_2 UNITS VAR_TYPE DISPLAY_TYPE CATDESC

---> [NO PLOT] Data Quality Indicator. 0 indicates good data. See documentation for list of other values

SPDF start might want to add scaletyp and set to log, linear next 

FORMAT FIELDNAM DEPEND_0 VAR_TYPE LABLAXIS UNITS DISPLAY_TYPE CATDESC

FORMAT TIME_BASE FIELDNAM DEPEND_0 VAR_TYPE LABLAXIS UNITS FILLVAL CATDESC

File-level Data Quality Indicator. 0 indicates good data. See documentation for list of other values

variable FILLVAL CATDESC FORMAT FIELDNAM LABLAXIS VAR_TYPE VALIDMIN VALIDMAX SCALETYP