AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids V003

Description

This data set contains gridded estimates of soil moisture in the top 1 cm of soil, averaged over the AMSR-E retrieval footprint. Soil moisture is estimated from AMSR-E/Aqua L2A brightness temperature (Tb) measurements using two different approaches: the Normalized Polarization Difference algorithm (NPD) and the Single Channel Algorithm (SCA). Ancillary data are also provided to help interpret the soil moisture observations, including vegetation roughness, observation counts for various surface conditions, and QA flags.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1995259960-NSIDC_ECS&pg%5B0%5D%5Bgsk%5D=-start_date&q=ae_land&ac=true&tl=1603657146%214%21%21&m=-12.091511045035787%21-22.5%211%211%210%210%2C2
21 Data Access link for ITSD project https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/AE_Land/versions/3/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F3JUPY6PAHHCP
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/AMSA/AE_Land.003
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/3JUPY6PAHHCP

Tags

  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • earth-science

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