GOES WATER VAPOR TRANSPORT V1

Description

The GOES Water Vapor Transport CD contains nineteen months of geostationary satellite-derived products from the GOES-8 satellite spanning the 1987-1988 El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. Water vapor transport variables was derived using the Marshall Automated Winds (MAW) tracking algorithm from GOES data are provided in daily and monthly gridded and non-gridded formats. Relative humidity was calculated using a modified version of the brightness temperature to relative humidity conversion technique. Pressure heights were assigned to each wind vector using the simple IR window technique. Data are available in binary and McIDAS format. For further information and to obtain this data, please contact GHRC at support-ghrc@earthdata.nasa.gov

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGHRC%2FGOES%2FDATA201
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GHRC/GOES/DATA201
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/goeswvt/goeswvt_dataset.html
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 A Satellite-Derived Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor Transport Index for Climate Studies http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039%3C0015%3AASDUTW%3E2.0.CO%3B2

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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