Description
The TC4 AMPR Brightness Temperature (TB) dataset consists of brightness temperature data from July 19, 2007 through August 8, 2007. The Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) mission field experiment was completed during July and August 2007 was based out of San Jose, Costa Rica. The Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) instrument played a key role in the experiment. The AMPR remotely senses passive microwave signatures of geophysical parameters from an airborne platform. The instrument is a low noise system which can provide multi-frequency microwave imagery with high spatial and temporal resolution. AMPR data were collected at a combination of frequencies (10.7, 19.35, 37.1, and 85.5 GHz) unique to current NASA aircraft instrumentation. These frequencies are well suited to the study of rain cloud systems, but are also useful to studies of various ocean and land surface processes.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Instructions for citing GHRC data | Open resource |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | Brief Instrument Description of the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) | Open resource | |
| Downloadable software applications | HTML | Example program to read AMPR data from a text file into arrays | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | HTML | N/A | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | GIF | Sample browse image | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | GIF | Sample browse image | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset | Open resource | |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset | Open resource |