TMI/TRMM surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km nighttime V001 (LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3) at GES DISC

Description

TMI/TRMM surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km nighttime V001 is Level 3 (gridded) data set. Its land surface parameters, surface soil moisture, land surface (skin) temperature, and vegetation water content, are derived from passive microwave remote sensing data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). There are two files per day, one daytime and one nighttime, archived as two different products. This document is for the nighttime product. The data set covers the period from December 1997 to April 2015 (when the instruments on the TRMM satellite were shut down in preparation for its reentry into the earth's atmosphere). The LPRM is based on a forward radiative transfer model to retrieve surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. The land surface temperature is derived separately from TMI's Ka-band (37 GHz). A unique feature of this method is that it can be applied at any microwave frequency, making it very suitable to exploit all the available passive microwave data from various satellites. Input data are from the TMI Brightness Temperatures (1B-11) product, nighttime passes, as processed using LPRM (i.e., LPRM/TMI/TRMM Level 2 product, LPRM_TMI_SOILM2_V001).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGWHRZEL8SA21
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3_001.html
21 GES DISC Hydrology Documentation https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=Hydrology+Documentation
21 GES DISC Data Rods Documentation https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/tools?title=Hydrology+Data+Rods
34 LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3_001.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3_001.png
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3.001/
33 README Document https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3.001/doc/README_LPRM.pdf
21 The GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Interface (Giovanni) is a web-based tool that allows users to interactively visualize and analyze data. https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#service=TmAvMp&starttime=&endtime=&dataKeyword=LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/LPRM_TMI_NT_SOILM3.001/contents.html

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  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • surface-thermal-properties
  • earth-science

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