AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Version 1

Description

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of the Earth. NSIDC produces AMSR-E gridded brightness temperature data by interpolating AMSR-E data (6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz) to the output grids from swath space using an inverse-distance squared method. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) input source data are used to create the gridded brightness temperature data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/RRR4WWORG070
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0302_amsre_qtrdeg_tbs/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FRRR4WWORG070

Tags

  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

Topics

  • Climate

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