Remote Sensing Systems Radiometer Rain Collocations with JPL RapidScat L2B Swath Grid

Description

This dataset contains the multi-sourced microwave radiometer wind speed, rain and cloud liquid water data collocated to RapidScat Level 2B wind vector cell (WVC) locations. The corresponding NASA mission is officially referred to as ISS-RapidScat. This dataset is produced by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) with direct funding from the JPL RapidScat project. All of the collocated radiometer data is produced by RSS. The co-located radiometer sources include: 1) DMSP SSM/I (F15) and SSMIS (F16/F17), 2) Coriolis WindSat, 3) GCOM-W1 AMSR2 and 4) GPM Core GMI; more details on these radiometer sources and sensors can be extracted by scrolling down to the "Platform/Sensor" section below this description. RapidScat is a Ku-band dual beam circular rotating scatterometer retaining much of the same hardware and functionality of QuikSCAT, with exception of the antenna sub-system and digital interface to the International Space Station (ISS) Columbus module, which is where RapidScat is mounted. Unlike QuikSCAT, ISS-RapidScat is not in sun-synchronous orbit, and flies at roughly half the altitude with a low inclination angle that restricts data coverage to the tropics and mid-latitude regions; the extent of latitudinal coverage stretches from approximately 61 degrees North to 61 degrees South. Furthermore, there is no consistent local time of day retrieval. This dataset is provided in a netCDF-4 file format that follows the netCDF "classic" model and made available via FTP and OPeNDAP. For data access, please click on the "Data Access" tab above.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2526576258-POCLOUD
8 ASCII CSV orbital revolution time tables with quality assurance information. https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/rapidscat/ancillary/revtime.csv
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/RSCAT_COLOCATED_RSS_RADIOMETER_LEVEL_2B_V1.jpg
21 Access to Climate quality L2B data record. http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/RSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V1
21 Website providing more detailed information about the ISS-RapidScat Mission. https://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/RapidScat/
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2526576258-POCLOUD
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FRSR12-L2C10
33 Ricciardulli, L., 2016: Radiometer rain colocations with JPL RapidScat winds on L2B swath grid. Technical Report 081816, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, p. 6. http://images.remss.com/papers/rsstech/2016_081816_RSS_Radiometers_RapidScat_colocations.pdf
21 README file https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/rapidscat/open/L2B12/colocated/rss/radiometer/v1.0/README.txt
21 Wentz, F.J., T. Meissner, C. Gentemann, K.A. Hilburn, J. Scott, 2014: Remote Sensing Systems GCOM-W1 AMSR2 [indicate whether you used Daily, 3-Day, Weekly, or Monthly] Environmental Suite on 0.25 deg grid, Version 7.2. Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA. http://www.remss.com/missions/amsre
21 Wentz, F.J., L.Ricciardulli, C.Gentemann, T. Meissner, K.A. Hilburn, J. Scott, 2013: Remote Sensing Systems Coriolis WindSat [indicate whether you used Daily, 3-Day, Weekly, or Monthly] Environmental Suite on 0.25 deg grid, Version 7.0.1. Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA. http://www.remss.com/missions/windsat
21 Text file containing reverse chronological list of future scheduled outages and past outages. A start/stop date/time and description is provided for each outage. This list is maintained by NOAA/NESDIS to service near-real-time data users. http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/rscat_images/monitor/RapidScat_Scheduled_Outages.txt
21 Wentz, F.J., T. Meissner, J. Scott, K.A. Hilburn, 2015: Remote Sensing Systems GPM GMI [indicate whether you used Daily, 3-Day, Weekly, or Monthly] Environmental Suite on 0.25 deg grid, Version 8.1. Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA. http://www.remss.com/missions/gmi
33 Ricciardulli, L. and F.J. Wentz, 2015: A Scatterometer Geophysical Model Function for Climate-Quality Winds: QuikSCAT Ku-2011. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 32, 1829-1846. http://images.remss.com/papers/ricciardulli/ricciardulli_jaot_2015.pdf
21 Detailed background information on the ISS-RapidScat mission published by the eoPortal. https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/iss-rapidscat
21 Wentz, F.J., K.A. Hilburn, D.K. Smith, 2012: Remote Sensing Systems DMSP [SSM/I or SSMIS] [Daily, 3-Day, Weekly, Monthly] Environmental Suite on 0.25 deg grid, Version 7. Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA. http://www.remss.com/missions/ssmi
33 Summary of Facts on the ISS-RapidScat Mission http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/issrapidscat_factsheet.pdf

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  • precipitation
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • ocean-winds
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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