AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0302
DOI: 10.5067/RRR4WWORG070
This is the most recent version of these data.
Overview
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of the Earth. NSIDC produces AMSR-E gridded brightness temperature data by interpolating AMSR-E data (6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz) to the output grids from swath space using an inverse-distance squared method. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) input source data are used to create the gridded brightness temperature data.
Parameter(s):
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
Platform(s):
AQUA
Sensor(s):
AMSR-E
Data Format(s):
Binary
Temporal Coverage:
19 June 2002 to 27 September 2011
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 0.25 degree
- 0.25 degree
Spatial Coverage:
N:
90
S:
-90
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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