SMAP L3 Radiometer Northern Hemisphere Daily 36 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State, Version 1 (SPL3FTP)
Data set:
SPL3FTP
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Version Summary
Version Summary
First public data release
Overview
This Level-3 (L3) product provides a daily composite of Northern Hemisphere landscape freeze/thaw conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer from 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. SMAP L-band brightness temperatures are used to derive freeze/thaw state and transition data, which are then resampled to an Earth-fixed, Northern Hemisphere azimuthal 36 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).
Data Contributor(s):
Xu, X., R. S. Dunbar, C. Derksen, A. Colliander, Y. Kim, and J. S. Kimball.
Parameter(s):
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
FREEZE/THAW
TRANSITION DIRECTION
Platform(s):
SMAP Observatory
Sensor(s):
SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER
Data Format(s):
HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
31 March 2015 to 3 June 2018
Temporal Resolution:
1 day
Spatial Resolution:
36 km
36 km
Spatial Coverage:
N:
85.044
S:
45
E:
180
W:
-180
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This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.
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