AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) 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 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 89.0 GHz brightness temperature (TB) product (AE_SI6) at 6.25 km resolution is an intermediate product during processing of AMSR-E Level-3 sea ice products at 12.5 km and 25 km resolution. Values are daily average, daily ascending, and daily descending horizontally and vertically polarized TBs mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 6.25 km spatial resolution. 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 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) Polar Grids V001, March to June 2004. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.