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
5 https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org%2Fpub%2FDATASETS%2Fnsidc0302_amsre_qtrdeg_tbs%2F
5 https://doi.org%2F10.5067%2FRRR4WWORG070
5 https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0302_amsre_qtrdeg_tbs/
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/RRR4WWORG070
5 https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0302_amsre_qtrdeg_tbs/
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/RRR4WWORG070
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1386204219-NSIDCV0.iso19115

Tags

  • earth-science-microwave-spectral-engineering-brightness-temperature

Topics

  • Climate

Categories

  • Arctic
  • Permafrost and Arctic Landscapes
  • Melting Glaciers, Snow and Ice