TROPICS01 Pathfinder L2A Unified Resolution Brightness Temperatures V1.0

Description

The "Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats" (TROPICS) mission has a goal of providing nearly all-weather observations of three-dimensional temperature and humidity, as well as cloud ice and precipitation horizontal structure, at high temporal resolution to conduct high-value science investigations of tropical cyclones. The mission comprises a constellation of six identical Space Vehicles (SVs) conforming to the 3U form factor and hosting a passive microwave spectrometer payload. This dataset is produced from the Pathfinder satellite, a single 3U small satellite, which has launched previous to the constellation, on a sun-synchronous orbital plane. Each SV hosts an identical high-performance spectrometer named the TROPICS Millimeter-wave Sounder (TMS) that will provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75-GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using three channels near the 183-GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements (when combined with higher resolution water vapor channels), and a single channel near 205 GHz that is more sensitive to cloud-sized ice particles. This dataset is from the Pathfinder satellite, as the provisional version of the Level 2A geolocated brightness temperature that are reported at native spatial resolutions. Each TROPICS netCDF file contains a granule of data with 81 spots and approximately 2880 scans, where a granule is defined as an orbit's worth of data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
34 TROPICS01ANTTL1A_01.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TROPICS01ANTTL1A_01.png
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2A/TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0/
33 TROPICS User Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
21 TROPICS Mission Page https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/data/TROPICS_L2A/TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0/
33 TROPICS01L2A README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS01_L1a_L1b_L2a_Prov_Stage2_Public_Release_README_Feb2024.pdf
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0.html
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSFSFDHJFD6PV
33 TROPICS L2A Radiance ATBD https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSFSFDHJFD6PV
34 TROPICS01ANTTL1A_01.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TROPICS01ANTTL1A_01.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0.html
21 TROPICS Mission Page https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS01URADL2A_1.0
33 TROPICS L2A Radiance ATBD https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf
33 TROPICS01L2A README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS01_L1a_L1b_L2a_Prov_Stage2_Public_Release_README_Feb2024.pdf
33 TROPICS User Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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