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MEaSUREs Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0630
DOI: 10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0630.001
There is a more recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, is an improved, enhanced-resolution, gridded passive microwave Earth System Data Record (ESDR) for monitoring cryospheric and hydrologic time series from SMMR, SSM/I-SSMIS, and AMSR-E. It is derived from the most mature and available Level-2 satellite passive microwave records from 1978 through the present.
Parameter(s):
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
Platform(s):
Aqua
DMSP 5D-2/F10
DMSP 5D-2/F11
DMSP 5D-2/F13
DMSP 5D-2/F14
DMSP 5D-2/F8
DMSP 5D-3/F15
DMSP 5D-3/F16
DMSP 5D-3/F17
DMSP 5D-3/F18
DMSP 5D-3/F19
Nimbus-7
Sensor(s):
AMSR-E
SMMR
SSM/I
SSMIS
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
  • 25 October 1978 to present
Temporal Resolution:
  • 12 hour
Spatial Resolution:
  • Not Specified
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 North
    EPSG:6931
  • WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 South
    EPSG:6932
  • WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 Global
    EPSG:6933
Spatial Coverage:
  • N:
    90
    S:
    -90
    E:
    180
    W:
    -180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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Help Articles

General Questions & FAQs

This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.
The main differences between the DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures, Version 2 (NSIDC-0032) and the MEaSUREs Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR, Version 1 (NSIDC-0630) data sets are de
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is migrating its primary data access from its legacy, on-premises archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud.

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Many NSIDC DAAC data sets can be accessed using NSIDC DAAC's Data Access Tool. This tool provides the ability to search and filter data with spatial and temporal constraints using a map-based interface.Users have the option to:
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