Co-Registered AMSR-E, QuikSCAT, and WMO Data  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0450
Summary
Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited.
This data set contains the following spatially and temporally co-registered data: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) brightness temperatures for all channels; Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) backscattering coefficients; and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ground observations acquired from more than two thousand stations. There is a large, increasing interest in the potential arising from the combination of active and passive microwave data for the extraction of geophysical parameters from spaceborne platforms. Often, one of the major obstacles is the generation of spatially and temporally co-registered data sets for testing hypotheses, validating models, and developing retrieval approaches. The temporal coverage of this data set spans from 01 January 2002 through 19 March 2009 with AMSR-E data included for the 19 June 2002 through 19 March 2009 time period. The volume of the data set is approximately two gigabytes. Data are provided in tab-delimited ASCII text files and are available via FTP.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 79.55°
S: 30.667°
E: 180°
W: -179.83301°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Tedesco, Marco and Jeffrey Miller
Dataset Title: Co-Registered AMSR-E, QuikSCAT, and WMO Data
Dataset Release Date: 2010-03-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0450.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2002-01-01
Stop Date: 2009-12-31
Location Keywords
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Air Quality Visibility
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Fog
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Tornadoes
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Sea Level Pressure
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Surface Pressure
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Maximum/Minimum Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Water Vapor Dew Point Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Wind Profiles
- Atmosphere Precipitation Hail
- Atmosphere Precipitation Precipitation Amount
- Atmosphere Precipitation Rain
- Atmosphere Precipitation Snow
- Cryosphere Snow/Ice Snow Depth
- Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Brightness Temperature
- Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature
- Spectral/Engineering Radar Radar Backscatter
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice Snow Depth
Ancillary Keywords
- AMSR-E
- Automated Weather Station Data
- Brightness Temperature
- Ground Stations
- Meteorology
- Northern Hemisphere
- NSIDC DAAC
- NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
- QuikSCAT
- RADIOMETER
- Scatterometer
- Snow
- Snow Cover
- Surface Layer Backscatter
- Wind Speed
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organization
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- AQUA Earth Observing System, AQUA
- GROUND STATIONS
- METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS
- QUIKSCAT Quick Recovery Scatterometer
Instrument
- AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
- RADIOMETERS
- SCATTEROMETERS
- SEAWINDS SeaWinds
Quality
These data should be used for research purposes only; the investigators make no guarantees as to the quality of the processing. Data are used as is from the original source.
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 2 GB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Marco Tedesco
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- City University of New York and NASA GSFC
- Department of Earth and Atmosphere Sciences
City: New York
Province or State: NY
Postal Code: 10031
Country: USA
Jeffrey Miller
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Province or State: Maryland
Country: USA
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
AMSR-E/Aqua Data
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
AMSR-E Validation Data
Reference
Knowles, K. W., M. H. Savoie, R. L. Armstrong, and M. J. Brodzik. 2006, updated current year. AMSR-E/Aqua daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures, 2002 to 2009. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2010-03-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-03-11
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