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This data set provides daily gridded brightness temperatures derived from passive microwave sensors and distributed in a polar stereographic projection. NSIDC produces daily gridded brightness temperatures from orbital swath data generated by the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F8, F11, and F13 platforms and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) aboard DMSP F17 and F18. The SSM/I and SSMIS channels used to calculate brightness temperatures include 19.3 GHz vertical and horizontal, 22.2 GHz vertical, 37.0 GHz vertical and horizontal, 85.5 GHz vertical and horizontal (on SSM/I), and 91.7 GHz vertical and horizontal (on SSMIS). Data at 85.5 GHz and 91.7 GHz are gridded at a resolution of 12.5 km, with all other frequencies at a resolution of 25 km. Orbital data for each 24-hour period are mapped to respective grid cells using a simple sum-and-average method, also known as the drop-in-the-bucket method.
DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Version 6
This is the most recent version of these data.
This version contains the following changes:
- Data set was converted from binary to NetCDF format.
- Daily files now contain data from all available sensors for a particular day.
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Meier, W. N., J. S. Stewart, H. Wilcox, D. J. Scott, and M. A. Hardman. 2021. DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Version 6. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/MXJL42WSXTS1. [Date Accessed].
