AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature Polar Grids

Data Contributors

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

Parameters

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
MICROWAVE IMAGERY

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 terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles.

This Level-3 gridded product (AE_SI6) includes brightness temperatures at 89.0 GHz. Data are mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 6.25 km spatial resolution. This product is an intermediate product during processing of AMSR-E Level-3 sea ice products at 12.5 km and 25 km resolution. All variables include daily average, daily ascending and descending horizontally and vertically polarized brightness temperatures. 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, Thorsten Markus, and Josefino Comiso. 2004, updated daily. AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature Polar Grids V002, list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.