The document discusses the Aura Guidelines, a common data format developed and adopted by four instruments on the Aura satellite. The Guidelines were developed using HDF5/HDF-EOS5 to store each instrument's data in a single format. New features include guidelines for zonal mean and gridded products, following similar naming conventions and metadata definitions as level 2 swath products. The Aura Guidelines have been rewritten and submitted as a technical note to NASA's Standards Process Group.