Knowledge of NASA’s Earth Science data quality and production legacy is improved

1. Quality use instructions are available
2. Users are able to interpret quality data more easily
3. Users are connected to current best practice reccommendations

Quality Screening is Easy

1. Quality Screening information is more accessible than in the past.
2. Specific documents about quality are available
3. General product informatiion is available
4. Peer-reviewed articles are available

Quality information is interpreted accurately

1. Expert users of quality screened data are supported

Earth Science Quality information is easy to use

1. Novice users of Quality Screened data are supported
2. Case studies are provided to show the benefits of apply quality screened data

The service will have the following features

Server-side Screening: provides the data files on-demand, already pre-screened.

User-Side Screening Support Masks: alternatively, provides a basic quality mask in a standard format to be applied on the client side using simple, reusable modules.

Science Team Recommendations: the above services will include preset criteria based on the science team’s recommendations

User-tunable Criteria: alternatively, allows the user to customize their quality screening.

Quality Ontology for machine-based services to interpret the quality information.

Simple HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) REST interface: makes the services callable by machine-level code or easy to incorporate in search interfaces, such as Mirador.

Metrics Instrumentation: shows how quality screening is being used by the community.

Quality Screening Impact Views: provides the users pictorial and statistical views of how a given quality set of screening criteria will affect the data.

Data provenance is captured

Quality Screening will be available for the following datasets

1. MODIS L2 Atmospheric Profile, Precipitable Water and Cloud products;
2. AIRS L2 Standard Retrieval and Support products;
3. MLS Water Vapor, Ice Water Content and Relative Humidity with respect to Ice products.
4. CALIPSO Vertical Feature Mask; and Cloudsat Cloud Classification and Radar-Only Liquid/Ice Water Content.

Support for persistence of the service is provided