AE_Ocean
AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm
Wentz, F. J. and T. Meissner.
AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm
2004-01-01
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Wentz
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Investigator
Thomas
Meissner
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Remote Sensing Systems
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438 First Street
Suite 200
Santa Rosa
CA
95401
USA
Investigator
Thomas
Meissner
thomas@remss.com
1 707 545-2904
1 707 545-2906
Remote Sensing Systems
Remote Sensing Systems
438 First Street
Suite 200
Santa Rosa
CA
95401
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Water Vapor
Precipitable Water
EARTH SCIENCE
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Water Vapor
Water Vapor
EARTH SCIENCE
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Winds
Surface Winds
EARTH SCIENCE
Atmosphere
Clouds
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
EARTH SCIENCE
Atmosphere
Clouds
Cloud Precipitable Water
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Ocean Temperature
Sea Surface Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Ocean Temperature
Water Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Ocean Winds
Surface Winds
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
AE_Ocean
AMSR-E
Aqua
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Atmospheric Surface Winds
Cloud Droplets
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
Cloud Precipitable Water
Clouds
Columnar Cloud Water
Columnar Water Vapor
Column Water Vapor
DAAC
EOSDIS
EOS PM-1
Equatorial Trade Winds
Greenhouse Gases
Imagery
Indian Ocean
NASA
Near-surface Wind Speeds
NSIDC
Ocean Heat Flux
OCEAN SURFACE WINDS
Ocean Thermal Energy
Ocean Water Temperature
Pacific Ocean
Passive Microwave
Radiance
Remote Sensing
Sea Surface Temperature
Sea Surface Winds
Sea Surface Wind Speeds
Vertically Integrated Cloud Liquid Water
Vertically Integrated Water Vapor Over Oceans
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
AQUA
Earth Observing System, AQUA
2002-06-18
in work
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89.24
-180
180
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL OCEAN
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EOS
Earth Observing System
Each HDF-EOS file contains core metadata with QA metadata flags that are set by the Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) prior to delivery to NSIDC. A separate metadata file (.xml file extension) is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file; it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of quality assessment (QA) are conducted with the AMSR-E Level - 2 and -3 products: automatic, operational, and science QA. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 2002).
The Level-2B ocean files contain three data elements related to quality assurance: the Scan_quality_flag, the Ocean_summary_quality_flag, and the Ocean_products_quality_flag.
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University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
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University of Colorado
Boulder
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USA
FTP
9 MB
HDF-EOS
Conway, D. 2002. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS Quality Assurance Plan. Huntsville, AL: Global Hydrology and Climate Center.
Meissner, Thomas and Frank J. Wentz. 2004. The Complex Dielectric Constant of Pure and Sea Water from Microwave Satellite Observations. IEEE TGARS 42(9): 1836 1849.
Meissner, Thomas and Frank J. Wentz. 2006. Ocean Retrievals for WindSat: Radiative Transfer Model, Algorithm, Validation. CD with proceedings of the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 February 03 March 2006. IEEE Catalog no. 06EX1174C.
Meissner, Thomas and Frank J. Wentz. 2002. Analysis of the Ocean Surface Wind Direction Signal in Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures. IEEE TGARS 40(6): 1230 1240.
Wentz, F. J., and T. Meissner. 2007. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document: AMSR-E Ocean Algorithms Supplement 1. Santa Rosa, California, USA: Remote Sensing Systems. (View PDF File)
Wentz, F. and T. Meissner. 2000. AMSR Ocean Algorithm. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Version 2. Santa Rosa, CA, USA: Remote Sensing Systems.
Wentz, Frank J. 1997. A Well-calibrated Ocean Algorithm for SSM/I. Journal of Geophy. Res 102: 8703 8718.
For more information regarding related publications, see the Research Using AMSR-E Data Web page.
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. Measurements of ocean variables improve our understanding of a wide variety of hydrological and radiative processes, including air-sea and air-ice interactions.
The Level-2B ocean swath product (AE_Ocean) contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) at 56 km and 38 km resolution, near-surface wind speed at 38 km and 21 km resolution, columnar water vapor at 21 km resolution, columnar cloud liquid water at 12 km resolution, and quality flags. All variables were measured over oceans and are generated from the Wentz algorithm.
The Level-3 daily product (AE_DyOcn), weekly product (AE_WkOcn), and monthly product (AE_MoOcn) include SST, near-surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, and columnar cloud liquid water over oceans in a 0.25 degree by 0.25 degree grid, generated from AE_Ocean. Data are stored in Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, and are available from 19 June 2002 to the present via FTP.
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