CrIS Level 1 - Multimission - Regional

Description

The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), a Fourier transform spectrometer with 2211 spectral channels, produces high-resolution, three-dimensional temperature, pressure, and moisture profiles. These profiles are used to enhance weather forecasting models, and to facilitate both short- and long-term weather forecasting. Over longer timescales, they will help improve understanding of climate phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña. A subset of 431 spectral channels only are included in order to reduce data volume. EUMETSAT Advanced Retransmission Service (EARS) provides instrument data from the NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 satellites collected via a network of Direct Readout stations.

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Tags

  • atmosphere

Topics

  • ENVI

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