TROPICS06 L1B Orbital Geolocated Native-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. 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
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTTY6ML9GMSDN
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS06BRTTL1B_1.0.html
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS06BRTTL1B_1.0
33 TROPICS L1 Radiance ATBD https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TRPCS-ATBD-034_L1_Rad_V2.1.pdf
33 TROPICS L1 README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS-03_TROPICS-06_L1_Validated_Stage1_Release_README_Aug2024_v2.pdf
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
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_L1B/TROPICS06BRTTL1B.1.0/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L1B/TROPICS06BRTTL1B.1.0/contents.html

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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