NSIDC-0450 Co-Registered AMSR-E, QuikSCAT, and WMO Data Tedesco, Marco and Jeffrey Miller Co-Registered AMSR-E, QuikSCAT, and WMO Data 2010-03-01 Boulder, Colorado USA NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0450.html 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 Investigator Marco Tedesco

City University of New York and NASA GSFC

Department of Earth and Atmosphere Sciences

New York NY 10031 USA Investigator Jeffrey Miller

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Maryland USA EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Air Quality Visibility EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Fog EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Tornadoes EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Sea Level Pressure EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Surface Pressure EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Maximum/Minimum Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Water Vapor Dew Point Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Wind Profiles EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Precipitation Hail EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Precipitation Precipitation Amount EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Precipitation Rain EARTH SCIENCE Atmosphere Precipitation Snow EARTH SCIENCE Cryosphere Snow/Ice Snow Depth EARTH SCIENCE Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Brightness Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature EARTH SCIENCE Spectral/Engineering Radar Radar Backscatter EARTH SCIENCE Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice Snow Depth Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere 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 AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS RADIOMETERS SCATTEROMETERS SEAWINDS SeaWinds AQUA Earth Observing System, AQUA GROUND STATIONS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS QUIKSCAT Quick Recovery Scatterometer 2002-01-01 2009-12-31 complete 30.667 79.55 -179.83301 180 GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 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. 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 2 GB ASCII Text 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.

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.

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://nsidc.org/data/amsr/index.html AMSR-E/Aqua Data VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/index.html AMSR-E Validation Data CEOS IDN DIF 9.7 2010-03-01 2010-03-11 Corrected temporal coverage date in summary paragraph.