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  - context: dataset
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0032
    url: http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=dif&identifier=oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0032
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cite_metadata: ~
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/4440.yaml
    id: 4440
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://nsidc.org/daac
    organization_uri: /organization/national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
    person: {}
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    role_type_identifier: data_archive
    uri: /contributor/4440
data_qualifier: ~
description: 'This Level-3 Equal-Area Scalable Earth-Grid (EASE-Grid) Brightness Temperature data set, collected since 09 July 1987, is a part of the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program. The data set consists of gridded data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) in three equal-area projections: Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and full global. The data gridding technique maximizes the radiometric integrity of the original brightness temperature values, maintains high spatial and temporal precision, and involves no averaging of original swath data. Spatial coverage is global and a spatial resolution of 25 km is available for all channels. Channels at 85 and 91 GHz are also provided at 12.5 km. For a given projection, there are 18 brightness temperature files per day and two corresponding time files. Data are contained in flat binary files and are available via FTP as processing is completed.'
description_attribution: http://nsidc.org/data/ease/
display_name: DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
doi: 10.5067/3EX2U1DV3434
end_time: 2014-12-31T00:00:00
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032.yaml
identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
instrument_measurements:
  - dataset_identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    display_name: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-11/special-sensor-microwave-imager/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    instrument_identifier: special-sensor-microwave-imager
    platform_identifier: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-11
    type: instrument_measurement
  - dataset_identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    display_name: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-13/special-sensor-microwave-imager/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    instrument_identifier: special-sensor-microwave-imager
    platform_identifier: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-13
    type: instrument_measurement
  - dataset_identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    display_name: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-8/special-sensor-microwave-imager/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    instrument_identifier: special-sensor-microwave-imager
    platform_identifier: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-8
    type: instrument_measurement
  - dataset_identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    display_name: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-17/special-sensor-microwave-imager-sounder/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
    instrument_identifier: special-sensor-microwave-imager-sounder
    platform_identifier: defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-17
    type: instrument_measurement
lat_max: 90
lat_min: -90
lon_max: 180
lon_min: -180
name: DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
native_id: NSIDC-0032
parents: []
processing_level: ~
publication_year: ~
references: []
release_dt: 1994-01-01T00:00:00
scale: ~
scope: ~
spatial_extent: ~
spatial_ref_sys: ~
spatial_res: ~
start_time: 1987-07-09T00:00:00
temporal_extent: ~
temporal_resolution: ~
type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0032
url: http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0032
variables: ~
version: ~
vertical_extent: ~