NSIDC-0194 AMMR Air and Brightness Temperature Data, Wakasa Bay J. Wang AMMR Air and Brightness Temperature Data, Wakasa Bay 2004-03-30 Boulder, Colorado USA NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0194.html Investigator James Wang jwang@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Code 975

Greenbelt MD 20771 USA EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature Aircraft Air Temperature AMSR-E Brightness Temperature EOSDIS NASA NSIDC DAAC Rainfall Algorithm AMMR Airborne Multichannel Microwave Radiometer AIRCRAFT 2003-01-14 2003-02-03 complete 30.6763 41.476 134.0313 150.3528 OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN SEA OF JAPAN 00:00:01 Temperature sensitivity is < 0.5 K, and calibration accuracy is about +/- 4 K. English NSIDC_DAAC NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA FTP 1.55 to 1.99 MB ASCII Text 'NASA Joins Snow Study over the Sea of Japan.' 29 January 2003. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/0122japansnow.html. Accessed March 2004.

The Wakasa Bay Field Campaign was conducted in January and February 2003 to validate rainfall algorithms developed for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). The primary objective was to validate both AMSR and AMSR-E shallow rainfall and snowfall retrievals. An Airborne Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (AMMR) aboard a NASA P-3 Orion collected 37 GHz and 21 GHz brightness temperatures (TBs) and air temperatures on 14 January, 19 January, 21 January, and 03 February 2003. All measurements fall within 30.6763 deg N to 41.476 deg N, 134.0313 deg E to 150.3528 deg E. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format and are available via FTP.

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation AMSR-E Validation Data VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/ AMSR-E Validation Data VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://rain.atmos.colostate.edu/Wakasa/ Wasaka Bay Field Experiment CEOS IDN DIF 9.7 2004-03-30 2012-07-06 corrected temporal resolution