NSIDC-0302
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures
Knowles, Ken
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures
2006-12-08
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0302.html
Investigator
Kenneth
Knowles
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Matthew
Savoie
savoie@nsidc.org
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
Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199 x
1 303 492-2468 x
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Brightness Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Brightness Temperature
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
AMSR-E
Brightness Temperature
cylindrical
equidistant
Global
Gridded Data
inverse-distance squared
Latitude
Longitude
Northern Hemisphere
Passive Microwave
Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
Remote Sensing
Southern Hemisphere
Spatially Resampled Brightness Temperatures
Swath
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
AQUA
Earth Observing System, AQUA
2002-06-19
2011-09-27
in work
-90
90
-180
180
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
25 km
25 km
1 day
0.25 degree
0.25 degree
1 day
.25°
.25°
1 day
EOSDIS
Earth Observing System Data Information System
Extensive quality control procedures are followed in the production of the AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) source data. See the Quality Assessment section of the AE_L2A documentation for more information. The gridding procedure assumes that source data brightness temperatures are legitimate, and performs no filtering of input data based on quality flags.
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
54 MB
Binary
Ashcroft, P. and F. Wentz. 2000. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the AMSR Level-2A Algorithm, Revised 03 November. Santa Rosa, California USA: Remote Sensing Systems.
Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. 'EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-Area Projections and Grids' in M. Goodchild (Ed.) Discrete Global Grids. Santa Barbara, California, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis.
Knowles, Kenneth W. 1993. Points, Pixels, Grids, and Cells -- A Mapping and Gridding Primer. Unpublished report to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado USA.
Knowles, Kenneth W. Intercomparison of Resampling Methods for SMMR Pathfinder in EASE-Grid Format. Unpublished report to geospatialmethods.org, Boulder, Colorado USA.
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 method. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) input source data are used to create the gridded brightness temperature data.
These data are provided in one global cylindrical, equidistant latitude-longitude projection at 0.25 degree (quarter-degree) resolution. 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.
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0301.html
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
http://nsidc.org/data/ae_l2a.html
AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (Tb)
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0032.html
DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
http://nsidc.org/data/ease/
EASE-Grid Data
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0071.html
Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2006-12-08
2012-08-14
Changed the temporal coverage to match what was in the EDB per Donna's request.