AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (Tb)
 Data Contributors
- ASHCROFT, PETER
- WENTZ, FRANK J.
Parameters
- BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
- MICROWAVE IMAGERY
Instruments
- AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS
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Documentation Order Data
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of global water and energy cycles. The AMSR-E Level-2A product (AE_L2A) contains brightness temperatures at 6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz. Data are resampled to be spatially consistent, and therefore are available at a variety of resolutions that correspond to the footprint sizes of the observations such as 56 km, 38 km, 24 km, 21 km, 12 km, and 5.4 km, respectively. Each swath is packaged with associated geolocation fields. Data are stored in Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format and are available from 19 June 2002 to the present via FTP.
Data CitationThe following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version number, dates of the data you used (for example, March to June 2004), publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.
Ashcroft, Peter and Frank Wentz. 2006, updated daily. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures V002, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
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