AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Brightness Temperature & Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids

Data Contributors

CAVALIERI, DONALD
COMISO, JOSEPHINO 'JOEY' C.
MARKUS, THORSTEN

Parameters

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
MICROWAVE IMAGERY
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

Instruments

AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of land, ocean, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. This Level-3 gridded product (AE_SI25) includes brightness temperatures at 6.9 through 89.0 GHz and sea ice concentrations. Data are mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 25 km spatial resolution. All variables include daily ascending averages, daily descending averages, and daily averages. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format and are available from 19 June 2002 to present via FTP, CD-ROM, DLT, or DVD.

Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of these data sets in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version number, dates of the data you used (for example, March to June 2004), publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.

Cavalieri, Donald, Markus Thorsten, and Josefino Comiso. 2004, updated daily. AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Brightness Temperature and Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids V002, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.