National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_l2a

AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of global water and energy cycles. The AMSR-E Level-2A product (AE_L2A) contains brightness temperatures at 6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz. Data are resampled to be spatially consistent, and therefore are available at a variety of resolutions that correspond to the footprint sizes of the observations such as 56 km, 38 km, 21 km, 12 km, and 5.4 km, respectively. Each swath is packaged with associated geolocation fields. Data are stored in Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format and are available from 1 June 2002 to 4 October 2011 via FTP.

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http://nsidc.org/data/AE_L2A

Identified by : AE_L2A

This dataset was released on June 12, 2013.

The time range for this dataset is June 01, 2002 to October 04, 2011.

The spatial range for this dataset is -89.24° to 89.24° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the advanced-microwave-scanning-radiometer-eos instrument on the aqua platform.
DOI : 10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_L2A.003
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/AE_L2A (nsidc lexicon)