NSIDC-0032
DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
Armstrong, R. L., K. W. Knowles, M. J. Brodzik and M. A. Hardman
DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
1998-01-01updated current year.
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Richard
Armstrong
rlax@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
Colorado
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Mary J.
Brodzik
brodzik@nsidc.org
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Brightness Temperature
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Antarctic
Arctic
DMSP
Ease
EASE-Grid
EOSDIS
Global
Gridded Data
IDN_NODE GSFC/NSIDC
NASA Pathfinder
NOAA/NASA Pathfinder
NOAA Pathfinder
Passive Microwave
Pathfinder
Polar
Remote Sensing
SSM/I
SSMIS
SSM/I
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SSMIS
Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
DMSP
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMSP 5D-2/F11
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11
DMSP 5D-2/F13
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13
DMSP 5D-2/F8
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F8
DMSP 5D-3/F17
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F17
1987-07-09
2013-03-31
in work
-90
90
-180
180
CONTINENT
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
HUDSON BAY
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
POLAR
OCEAN
ARCTIC OCEAN
BAFFIN BAY
OCEAN
ARCTIC OCEAN
BEAUFORT SEA
OCEAN
ARCTIC OCEAN
CHUKCHI SEA
OCEAN
ATLANTIC OCEAN
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEAN
ATLANTIC OCEAN
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
GREENLAND SEA
OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
BERING SEA
OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
AMUNDSEN SEA
25 km
25 km
1 day
12.5 km
12.5 km
1 day
EOSDIS
Earth Observing System Data Information System
ESIP
Earth Science Information Partners Program
NOAA/NASA PATHFINDER
NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program
English
NSIDC_DAAC
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
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Binary
Brodzik, M. J. 1997. 'EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-Area Projections and Grids.' NSIDC, Boulder, Colorado USA. http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.html.
Galantowicz, J. F., A. W. England. 1991. The Michigan Earth Grid: Description, Registration Method for SSM/I Data, and Derivative Map Projections. Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical
Galantowicz, J. F. 1995. Microwave Radiometry of Snow-Covered Grasslands for the Estimation of Land-Atmosphere Energy and Moisture Fluxes. PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.
Knowles, K. W. 1993. 'Points, Pixels, Grids, and Cells -- A Mapping and Griddi Primer.' NSIDC, Boulder, Colorado USA. http://cires.colorado.edu/~knowlesk/ppgc.html
Poe, G. A. 1990. Optimum Interpolation of Imaging Microwave Radiometer Data. IEEE Transactions Geoscience & Remote Sensing GE-28:800-810.
Stogryn, A. 1978. Estimates of Brightness Temperatures from Scanning Radiometer Data. IEEE Transactions Antennas & Propagation AP-26:720-726.
Wentz, F. J. 1991. User's Manual SSM/I Antenna Temperature Tapes, Revision 1. Remote Sensing Systems Technical Report 120191. Santa Rosa, California USA.
Wentz, F. J. 1992. Final Report, Production of SSM/I Data Sets. Remote Sensing Systems Technical Report 090192. Santa Rosa, California USA.
Wentz, F. J. 1993. User's Manual SSM/I Antenna Temperature Tapes, Revision 2. Remote Sensing Systems Technical Report 120193. Santa Rosa, California USA.
This Level-3 Equal-Area Scalable Earth-Grid (EASE-Grid) Brightness Temperature data set, collected since 09 July 1987, is a part of the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program. The data set consists of gridded data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) in three equal-area projections: Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and full global. The data gridding technique maximizes the radiometric integrity of the original brightness temperature values, maintains high spatial and temporal precision, and involves no averaging of original swath data. Spatial coverage is global and a spatial resolution of 25 km is available for all channels. Channels at 85 and 91 GHz are also provided at 12.5 km. For a given projection, there are 18 brightness temperature files per day and two corresponding time files. Data are contained in flat binary files and are available via FTP as processing is completed.
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EASE-Grid Data
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1998-01-01
2013-01-15
Fixed on of the contacts that was listed as technical contact and should have listed as PI.