SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Global and Northern Hemisphere Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State V003

Description

This enhanced Level-3 (L3) product provides a daily composite of global and Northern Hemisphere landscape freeze/thaw conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer from 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. This product is derived from SMAP enhanced Level-1C brightness temperatures (SPL1CTB_E). Backus-Gilbert optimal interpolation techniques are used to extract maximum information from SMAP antenna temperatures and convert them to brightness temperatures. The data are then posted to two 9 km Earth-fixed, Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grids, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0): a global cylindrical and a Northern Hemisphere azimuthal.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SMAP/SPL3FTP_E.003/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FZV08T8J395JB
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=SPL3FTP_E+V003
21 Subscribe to have new data automatically sent when the data become available. https://nsidc.org/daac/subscriptions.html
21 Search and filter data files using a map-based interface https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/SPL3FTP_E/versions/3/
21 This application allows you to interactively browse global satellite imagery within hours of it being acquired. You can also save it, share it, and download the underlying data. https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=BlueMarble_NextGeneration%2CSMAP_L3_Passive_Enhanced_Night_Freeze_Thaw%2CSMAP_L3_Passive_Enhanced_Day_Freeze_Thaw%2CCoastlines&t=2015-04-13
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/ZV08T8J395JB

Tags

  • snow-ice
  • cryosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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