NSIDC-0301
Knowles, Ken
20061208
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0301.html
This document pertains to two data sets: AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures (NSIDC-0301) and AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures (NISDC-0302).
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of the Earth. NSIDC produces AMSR-E gridded brightness temperature data by interpolating AMSR-E data (6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz) to the output grids from swath space using an Inverse Distance Squared (ID2) method. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) input source data are used.
These data are provided in three EASE-Grid projections (north and south Lambert azimuthal and global cylindrical) at 25 km resolution, and in one global cylindrical, equidistant latitude-longitude projection at 0.25 degree (quarter-degree) resolution. For both data sets, spatial coverage is global, data are daily, and coverage begins 19 June 2002 and ends 27 September 2011.
Data are provided via FTP. Brightness temperature data (in tenths of kelvins) are two-byte unsigned integers and time files are two-byte signed integers.
scientific research
Knowles, Ken
20061208
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nsidc0301_amsre_gridded_tb.gd.html
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20110927
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NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Microwave > Brightness Temperature
NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Project Keywords
EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System
NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
AMSR-E > Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords
AQUA > Earth Observing System, AQUA
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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AMSR-E
Brightness Temperature
cylindrical
Ease
EASE-Grid
Global
Gridded Data
inverse-distance squared
Lambert azimuthal
Northern Hemisphere
Passive Microwave
Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
Remote Sensing
Southern Hemisphere
Spatially Resampled Brightness Temperatures
Swath
NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
Geographic Region > Global
Geographic Region > Northern Hemisphere
Geographic Region > Southern Hemisphere
Earth Observing System, AQUA
AQUA
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
AMSR-E
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NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Microwave > Brightness Temperature
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NSIDC-0301
NSIDC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NSIDC makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
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20121009
20121009
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University of Colorado
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