AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Conc., & Snow Depth Polar Grids

Data Contributors

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

Parameters

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
MICROWAVE IMAGERY
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
SNOW DEPTH

Instruments

AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA 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_SI12) includes brightness temperatures (TBs) at 18.7 through 89.0 GHz, sea ice concentration, and snow depth over sea ice. Data are mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 12.5 km spatial resolution. Sea ice concentrations and TBs include daily ascending averages, daily descending averages, and daily averages; snow depth over sea ice data is a five-day running average. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format and are available via FTP, CD-ROM, 8-mm tape, DLT, or DVD-ROM.

Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version, dates of data you used, publishers (NSIDC), and digital media.

Cavalieri, D., and J. Comiso. 2004, updated daily. AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Conc., & Snow Depth Polar Grids V001, March to June 2004. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.