RSS MONTHLY 1-DEG MICROWAVE TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER NETCDF V7R01

Description

The Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Monthly 1-degree Microwave Total Precipitable Water (TPW) netCDF dataset V7R01 provides global total columnar water vapor values, or TPW, over ocean areas. This dataset contains monthly, 1-degree TPW means, a 12-month climatology made using 1988 to 2007 data, monthly anomaly maps, a trend map with associated global and tropical TPW time series and trends, and a time-latitude plot. The 1 degree TPW dataset is a merged ocean product constructed using version 7 (V7) passive microwave geophysical ocean products made publicly available by RSS (www.remss.com). TPW values for this dataset were acquired from the following satellite microwave radiometers: SSM/I F08 through F15, SSMIS F16 and F17, AMSR-E, AMSR-2, and WindSat. The radiometers used to construct this dataset were were inter-calibrated at the brightness temperature level, while the V7 ocean products were produced using a consistent processing methodology across sensors.

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%2FMEASURES%2FMULTIPLE%2FWATER_VAPOR%2FDATA302
33 Supplement 1 Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for AMSR-E Ocean Algorithms https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/tpw/doc/AMSR_Ocean_Algorithm_Version_2_Supplement_1.pdf
33 Ocean Algorithm for special sensor microwave/imager https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/tpw/doc/wentz_JGR_1997.pdf
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=rss1tpwnv7r01
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/tpw/doc/rss1tpwnv7r01_dataset.pdf
21 TPW data description http://www.remss.com/measurements/atmospheric-water-vapor/tpw-1-deg-product/
21 N/A http://images.remss.com/cdr/climate_data_record_browse.html?product=vapor
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 SSM/I Rain Retrievals within a Unified All-Weather Ocean Algorithm May 1, 1998 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/tpw/doc/wentz_JAS_1998.pdf
33 Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) Version 2 AMSR Ocean Algorithm https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/tpw/doc/AMSR_Ocean_Algorithm_Version_2.pdf

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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