AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km Sea Ice Drift Polar Grids

Data Contributors CAVALIERI, DONALD MARKUS, THORSTEN Parameters MICROWAVE IMAGERY SEA ICE MOTION Instruments AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

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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 land, ocean, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles.

This Level-3 gridded product (AE_SID) includes sea ice speed and direction generated by applying the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) wavelet transform algorithm to AMSR-E brightness temperatures. Daily drift data are averaged over five-day intervals and are mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 6.25 km spatial resolution. Drift parameters sea ice speed and direction were determined using the 89 GHz Horizontal (H) channel of the AMSR-E L3 6.25 km brightness temperature product. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format and are available from 01 June 2011 to present via FTP.

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Cavalieri, Donald, Thorsten Markus, Alvaro Ivanoff, Anthony Liu, and Yunhe Zhao. 2011. AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km Sea Ice Drift Polar Grids, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

See Also

• AMSR-E/Aqua Data
• Sea Ice Data at NSIDC
• Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors
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