WindSat/Coriolis surface soil moisture (LPRM) L2 V001 (LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2) at GES DISC

Description

WindSat/Coriolis surface soil moisture (LPRM) L2 V001 is a Level 2 (swath) data set. Its land surface parameters, surface soil moisture, land surface (skin) temperature, and vegetation water content, are derived from polarimetric microwave radiometer data from WindSat, onboard the Naval Research Laboratory's Coriolis satellite, using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). Each swath is packaged with associated geolocation fields. The data set covers the period from February 2003 to July 2012. The LPRM is based on a forward radiative transfer model to retrieve surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. The land surface temperature is derived separately from the WindSat's Ka-band (37.0 GHz). A unique feature of this method is that it can be applied at any microwave frequency, making it very suitable to exploit all the available passive microwave data from various satellites. Input data are from the WindSat brightness temperatures (sdrLowRes) product, archived at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2.001
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2.001/contents.html
34 LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2_001.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2_001.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2_001.html
21 Use the Earthdata Search Client to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2
21 GES DISC Hydrology Documentation https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=Hydrology+Documentation
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FLITMC9T7LZSN

Tags

  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • surface-thermal-properties
  • earth-science

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