ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-16 V1

Description

AMSU-A, the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, is a 15-channel passive microwave radiometer used to profile atmospheric temperature and moisture from the earth's surface to ~45 km (3 millibars). All orbits beginning in the day (00:00:00 - 23:59:59 UTC) are stored in one daily HDF-EOS file. Each file contains 15 (channel) arrays, as well as corresponding latitude, longitude, and time. AMSU flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiting spacecraft as part of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Launched on 21 September 2000, NOAA-16 is in a sun synchronous near polar orbit.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/amsu-a/noaa-16/browse/
21 PROGRAM - Reads the Nth scan line from the given file, or the first if "N" is not specified https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/amsu_a/amsuareader.c
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGHRC%2FAMSU-A%2FDATA202
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=amsua16sp
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/amsu_a/amsu-a_dataset.html
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/amsu-a/noaa-16/browse/2004/0525/amsua16_2004.146_C01_C.png

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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