TRMM LBA (LARGE SCALE BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE) EXPERIMENT (AMPR) V1

Description

The Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) was deployed during the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission - Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment (TRMM-LBA); the second of three TRMM ground validation missions. AMPR data were collected at four distinct microwave frequencies (10.7, 19.35, 37.1 and 85.5 GHz) for the time period of January 23 through February 26, 1999. The geographic domain of the TRMM-LBA region was wholly within Brazilian Amazon Basin between 16 S to 6N latitude and 76W to 49 W longitude. The TRMM-LBA mission was to study convection over humid tropical land regions within the range of research-quality radar, lightning, radiosonde and raingage sites located in the Amazon Basin (Rondonia, Brazil).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/trmmlba/doc/amprtblba_dataset.pdf
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/trmmlba/browse/lba_ampr_19990210_173949-211801.gif
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/ampr/
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/trmmlba/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTRMMLBA%2FAMPR%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=amprtblba
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/ampr/trmmlba/browse/lba_ampr_19990207_173646-220744.gif
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
33 Brief Instrument Description of the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/ampr/ampr.pdf

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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