TROPICS05 L2A Unified Resolution Brightness Temperatures V0.2

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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 five identical Space Vehicles (SVs) conforming to the 3U form factor and hosting a passive microwave spectrometer payload. 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 TROPICS05 satellite, as the Provisional version of the Level 2A geolocated brightness temperature with the water vapor sounding channels (Ch. 9 to 12) converted from their native G-band resolution to the temperature sounding channel (F-band) native resolution (i.e., all measurements at the same unified larger resolution). This product is used in the Atmospheric Vertical Temperature Profile (AVTP) retrievals to gain the benefit of averaging the G-band channels (i.e., noise reduction) while maintain the F-band (AVTP) spatial resolution. The conversion uses the Backus-Gilbert technique. 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.

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5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DTROPICS05URADL2A_0.2
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTROPICS-03_-06_-05_-07_L2a_Release_README_Aug2024.pdf
5 https://tropics.ll.mit.edu%2FCMS%2Ftropics%2FMission-Overview
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2
34 TROPICS06URADL2A_0.2.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TROPICS06URADL2A_0.2.png
21 TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2.html https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2.html
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2A/TROPICS05URADL2A.0.2/
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L2A/TROPICS05URADL2A.0.2/
33 TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf
33 TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
33 TROPICS-03_-06_-05_-07_L2a_Release_README_Aug2024.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS-03_-06_-05_-07_L2a_Release_README_Aug2024.pdf
5 https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview
34 TROPICS06URADL2A_0.2.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TROPICS06URADL2A_0.2.png
21 TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2.html https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2.html
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5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L2A/TROPICS05URADL2A.0.2/
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS05URADL2A_0.2
33 TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-035_L2a_URRP_V2.1.pdf
33 TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
33 TROPICS-03_-06_-05_-07_L2a_Release_README_Aug2024.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS-03_-06_-05_-07_L2a_Release_README_Aug2024.pdf
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2985145612-GES_DISC.iso19115

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