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| Persistent ID | PODAAC-GHAMS-2GR01 |
| Short Name | REMSS-L2P_GRIDDED_25-AMSRE |
| Description | The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) was launched on 4 May 2002, aboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft. The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) provided AMSR-E to NASA as an indispensable part of Aqua's global hydrology mission. Over the oceans, AMSR-E is measuring a number of important geophysical parameters, including sea-surface temperature (SST), wind speed, atmospheric water vapor, cloud water, and rain rate. A key feature of AMSR-E is its capability to see through clouds, thereby providing an uninterrupted view of global SST and surface wind fields. Remote Sensing Systems (RSS, or REMSS) is the provider of these SST data for the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Project. Although the product designation is "L2P_GRIDDED" it is in actuality a Level 3 Collated (L3C) product as defined in the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0. Its "L2P_GRIDDED" name derives from a deprecated specification in the early Pilot Project phase of GHRSST (pre 2008) and has remained for file naming continuity. In this dataset, both ascending (daytime) and descending (daytime) gridded orbital passes on packaged into the same daily file. |
| Journal Reference | http://www.ssmi.com/amsr/amsr_data_description.html |
| Dataset Type | OPEN |
| Measurement | Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature > Sub-skin Sea Surface Temperature |
| Processing Level | 3 |
| Coverage | Region: Global Northernmost Latitude: 90 degrees Southernmost Latitude: -90 degrees Westernmost Longitude: -180 degrees Easternmost Longitude: 180 degrees Time Span: 2002-Jun-01 to 2011-Oct-04 |
| Resolution | Spatial Resolution: 0.25 degrees (Latitude) x 0.25 degrees (Longitude) Temporal Resolution: revisit ~twice each day (night and daytime passes) |
| Projection | Type: Gridded Detail: Equal-angle Ellipsoid: unknown |
| Latency | 12 hours |
| Platform/Sensor | AQUA / Platform Name: AQUA (AQUA) Orbit Period: 98.8 minutes Inclination Angle: 98 degrees Ascending Node: - AMSR-E SENSOR Name: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSR-E) Swath Width: 1445 km Description: The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) is a twelve-channel, six-frequency, total power passive-microwave radiometer system. |
| Project | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) |
| Data Provider | Creator: Remote Sensing Systems Release Place: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Release Date: 2007-Jul-03 Resource: http://www.remss.com |
| Keyword(s) | GHRSST, sea surface temperature, sst, surface temperature |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
