AMSR-E L2 Rainfall Subset, collocated with CloudSat track V002 (AMSERR_CPR) at GES DISC

Description

This is a subset of AMSR-E rain rate product along CloudSat field of view track. The goal of the subset is to select and return AMSR-E data that are within -100 km across the CloudSat track. Thus resultant subset swath is 45 pixels cross-track. Apart from that, all efforts are made to preserve the original HDF-EOS formatting of the source full-sized data. The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. The original, full-sized, product is Level-2B swath product (AE_Rain), and it contains instantaneous measurements of rain rate and rain type (convective vs. stratiform), generated from Level-2A brightness temperatures (AE_L2A). The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Profiling algorithm determines rain rate and type over ocean areas, and a Modified GSFC Profiling algorithm over land. Data are stored in HDF-EOS (HDF4) format, and are available from 18 June 2002 until the AMSR-E instrument was turned off due to antenna problems in October 2011.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
34 AMSRERR_CPR_002.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/AMSRERR_CPR_002.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/AMSRERR_CPR_002.html
21 View all original full-sized AMSR-E data. https://nsidc.org/data/search/#keywords=amsr-E+precipitation
21 Data summaries for AMSR-E data, including the original full-sized product, AE_Rain http://nsidc.org/data/ae_rain/versions/2
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://atrain.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/AMSRE/AMSRERR_CPR.002/

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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