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AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Global Swath Ocean Products, Version 1
AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Global Swath Ocean Products, Version 1
Data set id:
AU_Ocean
DOI: 10.5067/9YQRFKKEPUP4
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Kummerow, C., Ferraro, R. & Duncan, D. (2021). AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Global Swath Ocean Products. (AU_Ocean, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/9YQRFKKEPUP4. [describe subset used if applicable]. Date Accessed 09-02-2025.
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This is the most recent version of these data. Version Summary
Initial data release.
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Overview
This AMSR Unified global ocean data set reports integrated water vapor and cloud liquid water content in the atmospheric column, plus 10-meter sea surface wind speeds. The data are derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 brightness temperature observations that have been resampled by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to facilitate an intercalibrated (i.e., “unified”) AMSR-E/AMSR2 data record. Ancillary files, including product history, quality assessment (QA), and file-specific metadata are also available.
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