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SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Northern Hemisphere Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State, Version 1

This enhanced 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. This product is derived from SMAP Level-1C (L1C) interpolated brightness temperatures. Backus-Gilbert optimal interpolation techniques are used to extract maximum information from SMAP antenna temperatures and convert them to brightness temperatures, which are posted to the 9 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0) in a Northern Hemisphere azimuthal projection.

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Version Summary: 

First public data release

Parameter(s):
  • Microwave > Brightness Temperature > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
  • Snow/Ice > Freeze/Thaw > Freeze/Thaw State
  • Snow/Ice > Freeze/Thaw > TRANSITION DIRECTION
Data Format(s):
  • HDF5
Spatial Coverage:
N: 85.044, 
S: 45, 
E: 180, 
W: -180
Platform(s):SMAP Observatory
Spatial Resolution:
  • 9 km x 9 km
Sensor(s):SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER
Temporal Coverage:
  • 31 March 2015 to 3 June 2018
Version(s):V1
Temporal Resolution1 dayMetadata XML:View Metadata Record
Data Contributor(s):Dunbar, R. S., X. Xu, A. Colliander, C. Derksen, J. S. Kimball, and Y. Kim.

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Dunbar, R. S., X. Xu, A. Colliander, C. Derksen, J. S. Kimball, and Y. Kim. 2016. SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Northern Hemisphere Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/Z08PIR8RGVR2. [Date Accessed].

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