AMMR Air and Brightness Temperature Data, Wakasa Bay

Data Contributors WANG, JAMES Parameters ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE Instruments AMMR : AIRBORNE MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER

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The Wakasa Bay Field Campaign was conducted in January and February 2003 to validate rainfall algorithms developed for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). The primary objective was to validate both AMSR and AMSR-E shallow rainfall and snowfall retrievals. An Airborne Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (AMMR) aboard a NASA P-3 Orion collected 37 GHz and 21 GHz brightness temperatures (TBs) and air temperatures on 14 January, 19 January, 21 January, and 03 February 2003. All measurements fall within 30.6763 deg N to 41.476 deg N, 134.0313 deg E to 150.3528 deg E. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format and are available via FTP.

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J. Wang. 2004. AMMR Air and Brightness Temperature Data, Wakasa Bay. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

See Also

• Wasaka Bay Field Experiment
• AMSR-E Validation Data
• AMSR-E Validation Data
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