TC4 AMPR BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE (TB) V1

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
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTC4%2FAMPR%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=tc4ampr
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/tc4/browse/tc4_ampr_20070719_140900-143904.gif
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/tc4/doc/tc4ampr_dataset.pdf
21 Example program to read AMPR data from a text file into arrays https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/ampr/example_ampr_read_program.f
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/tc4/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 Brief Instrument Description of the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/ampr/ampr.pdf
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/tc4/browse/tc4_ampr_20070725_135600-185802.gif

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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