TROPICS05 Pathfinder L2B Instantaneous Surface Rain Rate (ISRR) 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 and is the Provisional version of the Level 2B retrievals of instantaneous surface rain rate in units of mm/hr at G-band spatial resolution. The algorithm was adapted from the NASA Goddard Precipitation Retrieval and Profiling Scheme (PRPS). 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://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2Fdatacollection%2FTROPICS05PRPSL2B_0.2.html
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fdata%2FTROPICS_L2B%2FTROPICS05PRPSL2B.0.2%2F
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DTROPICS05PRPSL2B_0.2
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FImages%2FTROPICS06PRPSL2B_0.2.png
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTRPCS-ATBD-L2b-PRPS-V3.pdf
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
5 https://tropics.ll.mit.edu%2FCMS%2Ftropics%2FMission-Overview
5 https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fproject%2FTROPICS%2FTROPICS-03_-05_-06_PRPS_L2b_Release_README_Oct2024.pdf
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov%2Fopendap%2Fhyrax%2FTROPICS_L2B%2FTROPICS05PRPSL2B.0.2%2Fcontents.html
34 TROPICS06PRPSL2B_0.2.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/TROPICS06PRPSL2B_0.2.png
21 TROPICS05PRPSL2B_0.2.html https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS05PRPSL2B_0.2.html
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS05PRPSL2B.0.2/
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS05PRPSL2B_0.2
33 TRPCS-ATBD-L2b-PRPS-V3.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-L2b-PRPS-V3.pdf
33 TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
5 https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview
33 TROPICS-03_-05_-06_PRPS_L2b_Release_README_Oct2024.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS-03_-05_-06_PRPS_L2b_Release_README_Oct2024.pdf
21 contents.html https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/hyrax/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS05PRPSL2B.0.2/contents.html

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