TROPICS07 L2B Neural-network Atmospheric Vertical Temperature & Moisture Profiles V0.2

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 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 the Level-2B Neural Network Atmospheric Vertical Profiles (NNAVP) – Neural Network vertical profile retrieval approach for temperature profiles in Kelvin (K) and water vapor mixing ratio profiles in (kg/kg). Retrievals are done in all non and precipitating conditions, over both land and ocean. Temperature profiles go from surface to 20 km and water profiles from surface to 10-km. The geophysical retrieval of atmospheric vertical temperature is at the larger unified F-band spatial resolution while the retrieval of vertical moisture is at the finer G-band spatial resolution. 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%2F3VD0K0VAFQ3F
34 TROPICS_Mission.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/images/TROPICS_Mission.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B_0.2.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B.0.2/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B.0.2/
33 TROPICS L2B ATBD https://weather.ndc.nasa.gov/tropics/quarterly/CY2024_Q4/Pieper_etal.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
33 TROPICS07 L2B README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_NN_AVP_Release_Notes_Feb2025_v2.pdf
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS07NNAVPL2B_0.2
0 STS.3ds.zip http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/shared_assets/models/sts/STS.3ds.zip
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F3VD0K0VAFQ3F
34 TROPICS_Mission.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/images/TROPICS_Mission.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B_0.2.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B.0.2/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS07NNAVPL2B.0.2/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS07NNAVPL2B_0.2
33 TROPICS L2B ATBD https://weather.ndc.nasa.gov/tropics/quarterly/CY2024_Q4/Pieper_etal.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
33 TROPICS07 L2B README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_NN_AVP_Release_Notes_Feb2025_v2.pdf

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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